And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,
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Gill's Exposition
And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city,.... Who there remained, and attempted not to go forth and meet him, and stop his progress, though he must have passed great part of his…
Barnes' Notes
It may be supposed that a considerable time had passed in the siege, that the city had been reduced to an extremity, and that ambassadors had been sent by Ahab to ask terms of peace short of absolute…
Here is, I. The threatening descent which Ben-hadad made upon Ahab's kingdom, and the siege he laid to Samaria, his royal city, Kg1 20:1. What the ground of the quarrel was we are not told;…
Cambridge Bible
he sent messengers Sending first, no doubt, as Josephus explains, a herald to ask that his ambassadors might be received to explain his demands.