1 Re 20:12

La Riveduta Bibbia

Quando Ben-Hadad ricevette quella risposta era a bere coi re sotto i frascati; e disse ai suoi servi: "Disponetevi in ordine!" E quelli si disposero ad attaccar la città.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Quando Ben-Hadad ricevette questa risposta, egli si trovava assieme ai re a bere sotto le tende, e disse ai suoi servi: "Preparatevi ad attaccare!". Cos essi si prepararono ad attaccare la citt.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
E quando Ben-hadad ebbe intesa quella risposta, bevendo, insieme con quei re, nelle tende, disse a’ suoi servitori: Mettetevi in ordine. Ed essi si misero in ordine contro alla città.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

message: Heb. word

drinking: 1 Kings 20:16, 1 Kings 16:9, 1 Samuel 25:36, 2 Samuel 13:28, Proverbs 31:4, Proverbs 31:5, Daniel 5:2, Daniel 5:30, Luke 21:34, Ephesians 5:18

pavilions: or, tents, That persons of regal dignity regaled themselves in this manner, we may learn from Dr. Chandler, who, when he went to visit the Aga of Suki, after his return from hawking, found him vexed and tired; and "a couch was prepared from him beneath a shed made against a cottage, and covered with green boughs to keep off the sun. He entered as we were standing by, and fell down on it to sleep, without taking any notice of us." Jeremiah 43:10

Set yourselves in array, And they set: etc. or, Place the engines, And they placed engines

Reciprocal: Judges 16:25 - their hearts 1 Chronicles 19:19 - the servants

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, when Benhadad heard this message (as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions),.... Though it was at noon, or before, 1 Kings 20:16, which shows that he and they were addicted to intemperance:

that he said unto his servants; some of the principal officers of his army:

set yourselves in array; prepare for battle, betake yourselves to your arms, invest the city at once, and place the engines against it to batter it down:

and they set themselves in array against the city; besieged it in form, at least prepared for it; for it seems after all that it was not properly done.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Pavilions - “Booths” (Genesis 33:17 margin; Leviticus 23:42; Jonah 4:5). The term seems to be properly applied to a stationary “booth” or “hut,” as distinguished from a moveable “tent.” On military expeditions, and especially in the case of a siege, such “huts” were naturally constructed to shelter the king and his chief officers.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 20:12. In the pavilions — This word comes from papilio, a butterfly, because tents, when pitched or spread out, resembled such animals; partly because of the mode of their expansion, and partly because of the manner in which they were painted.

Set yourselves in array. — The original word, שימו simu, which we translate by this long periphrasis, is probably a military term for Begin the attack, Invest the city, Every man to his post, or some such like expression.