1 Kings 22:31

Contextual Overview

²⁹Then the king of Israel and Judah’s King Jehoshaphat went up to Ramoth-gilead. ²⁹ So the king of Yisra'el and Yehoshafat the king of Yehudah went up to Ramot-Gil`ad. ²⁹ So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead. ²⁹ So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. ²⁹ So Ahab king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went to Ramoth in Gilead. ²⁹ The king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah attacked Ramoth Gilead. ²⁹So [Ahab] the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. ²⁹ So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead. ²⁹ So the King of Israel and Iehoshaphat the King of Iudah went vp to Ramoth Gilead. ²⁹So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thirty and two: 1 Kings 20:24, 2 Chronicles 18:30

Fight: 1 Kings 20:33-42

small nor great: Genesis 19:11, 1 Samuel 30:2, Jeremiah 16:6

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 17:2 - I will smite 2 Samuel 18:3 - if we flee 1 Kings 20:34 - So he made a covenant 1 Kings 20:42 - Because 1 Kings 22:33 - that they turned 1 Kings 22:36 - there went 2 Kings 6:8 - the king 2 Kings 6:24 - gathered

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had the rule over his chariots,.... This was the number of his kings in the first battle with Israel, and of his captains in the second, 1 Kings 20:1, and the same number he had now, being very probably not only the number of his chariots, but the division of his army was into so many battalions, under the command of these captains of chariots:

saying, fight neither with small nor great; of those that belonged to Jehoshaphat:

save only with the king of Israel; and his men; for it can hardly be thought that his orders were to fight with none, nor kill any in the battle but Ahab personally; though it is very probable he might give them directions to aim at him chiefly, knowing that, if he was killed or taken, his army would flee or surrender; and he might be desirous of getting him into his hands, as he had been in his; and the rather his spite was against him, as he was the mover of the war.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Commanded - “Had commanded.” Ben-hadad delivers his order in the hyperbolical style common in the East. His meaning is, “Make it your chief object to kill or take the king of Israel.” Apparently, his own defeat and captivity were still rankling in his mind, and he wished to retaliate on Ahab, the humiliation which he considered himself to have suffered. He shows small appreciation of the generosity which had spared his life and restored him to his kingdom.