1 Re 20:32

La Riveduta Bibbia

Così essi si misero dei sacchi intorno ai fianchi e delle corde al collo, andarono dal re d’Israele, e dissero: "Il tuo servo Ben-Hadad dice: Ti prego, lasciami la vita!" Achab rispose: "E’ ancora vivo? egli è mio fratello".

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Cos essi si misero dei sacchi intorno ai fianchi e delle corde al collo, andarono dal re dIsraele e dissero: "Il tuo servo Ben-Hadad dice: "Ti prego, lasciami in vita"". Achab rispose: "E ancora vivo? Egli mio fratello".

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Essi adunque si cinsero de’ sacchi in su i lombi, e si misero delle corde al collo, e vennero al re di Israele, e dissero: Il tuo servitore Ben-hadad dice così; Deh! che io viva. Ed egli disse: È egli ancora vivo? egli è mio fratello.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thy servant: 1 Kings 20:3-6, Job 12:17, Job 12:18, Job 40:11, Job 40:12, Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:12, Isaiah 10:12, Daniel 5:20-23, Obadiah 1:3, Obadiah 1:4

he is my brother: 1 Kings 20:42, 1 Samuel 15:8-20

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:28 - wilt Genesis 32:4 - servant 1 Kings 18:22 - I only 2 Kings 10:5 - We are thy servants 2 Kings 16:7 - I am thy servant

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads,.... Signifying they came to surrender themselves to him as his captives and prisoners, and he might do with them as seemed good to him, hang them up if he pleased, for which they brought ropes with them, as a token that they deserved it, see Isaiah 20:2,

and came to the king of Israel, and said, thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee let me live: he that a little while ago insolently demanded his wives, and children, and silver, and gold, as his property, now is his humble servant, and begs, not for his crown and kingdom, but for his life:

and he said, is he yet alive? he is my brother; which was intimating at once, that not only they might expect he would spare his life, who seemed to be so glad that he was alive, but that he would show him more favour, having a great affection for him as his brother; this was a very foolish expression from a king in his circumstances, with respect to one who had given him so much trouble and distress, and had behaved with so much haughtiness and contempt towards him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ben-hadad is now as humble as Ahab had been a year before 1 Kings 20:9. He professes himself the mere “slave” of his conqueror.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 32. Thy servant Ben-hadad — See the vicissitude of human affairs! A little before he was the haughtiest of all tyrants, and Ahab calls him his lord; now, so much is he humbled, that he will be glad to be reputed Ahab's slave!