And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.
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Gill's Exposition
And the king of Israel answered and said, my lord, O king,.... So he said to Benhadad's messengers, representing him, as acknowledging his sovereignty over him:
according to thy saying, I am thine,…
Adam Clarke
I am thine, and all that I have - He probably hoped by this humiliation to soften this barbarous king, and perhaps to get better conditions.
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
according to thy saying The R.V. inserts It is before these words and thus brings out the division of the verse as marked in the Hebrew. The order of words in the original is -It is according to thy…
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