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Then Ben-hadad sent to him and said, "May the gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be sufficient for a handful for all the people who follow me."

Now it happened that when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking with the kings in the booths, he said to his servants, "Station yourselves." So they stationed themselves against the city.

And Ahab said, "By whom?" So he said, "Thus says Yahweh, ‘By the young men of the rulers of the provinces.'" Then he said, "Who shall begin the battle?" And he said, "You."

So these went out from the city, the young men of the rulers of the provinces, and the military force which followed them.

and you shall number a military force like the military force that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they." And he listened to their voice and did so.

So they camped one opposite the other seven days. Now it happened that on the seventh day the battle was joined, and the sons of Israel struck down of the Arameans 100,000 foot soldiers in one day.

So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please let me live.'" And he said, "Is he still alive? He is my brother."

And Ben-hadad said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I will return, and you shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria." Ahab said, "And I will let you go with this covenant." So he cut a covenant with him and let him go.

So the prophet walked away and stood by, for the king by the way, and disguised himself with a bandage over his eyes.

Now it happened that while your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." And the king of Israel said to him, "So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it."

So the king of Israel went to his house sullen and enraged, and came to Samaria.

So Ahab came into his house sullen and enraged because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and ate no food.

But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, "How is it that your spirit is so sullen that you are not eating food?"

So he said to her, "Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you a vineyard in its place.' But he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.'"

So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal, and sent letters to the elders and to the nobles who were living with Naboth in his city.

and seat two vile men before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king.' Then take him out and stone him so that he will die."

So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them, just as it was written in the letters which she had sent them.

Then the two vile men came in and sat before him; and the vile men testified against him, against Naboth, before the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." So they took him outside the city and stoned him with stones and he died.

So they lived for three years without war between Aram and Israel.

Then the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, but we are sitting still so as not to take it out of the hand of the king of Aram?"