1 Kings 20

1 Kings 20:4

Am thine] I acknowledge my selfe to be thy vassall, and am ready to doe thee hommage.

1 Kings 20:5

Although] I doe not meane as thou sayest; I will be master and possessor of all thou hast.

1 Kings 20:6

Yet I will] the Italian, Or else to morrow, or, but to morrow.

1 Kings 20:7

Seeketh mischief] he will stand to no reasonable agreement, but will utterly destroy us: [denied him not] I durst not deny him any thing before I had heard your advices: Wherefore if you advise me, I am ready to suffer any thing, for the publike safety: Or else you must prepare to defend your selves stoutly.

1 Kings 20:10

If the dust] words of proud boasting: The meaning is, I will come into Samaria with so many men, that when I have brought it all to dust, they shall not every man have their hands full.

1 Kings 20:11

Let not him] a proverb according to the common phrase thus, We ought not to sing, nor boast of a triumph, before such time as wee have got the victory.

1 Kings 20:12

Set your selves] or make ready your Engines to batter it.

1 Kings 20:14

Who shall Order] who shall set upon the Camp after it is disordered by the young men.

1 Kings 20:20

His man] whomsoever hee met, or encountred with.

1 Kings 20:22

What thou dost] not onely to provide thy selfe with humane meanes, but also chiefly to obtaine the help of God, and his gracious assistance, through repentance, prayer, faith, &c.

1 Kings 20:24

Take the Kings away] who are no souldiers, and did cause disorder thorough their disobeence.

1 Kings 20:30

A wall fell] by some earthquake or other miraculous cause: [an inner chamber] the Italian, from chamber to chamber, he got into some closet, study, or inner chamber.

1 Kings 20:32

He is] Kings through good will, and by reason of their equality in degree, use to call one another brothers. Now this elemency in Ahab was nought, being contrary to the will of God, vers. 42. whether that will were declared to him by the Prophet, or whether it was to bee understood by the miraculous victory, granted by the Lord against a fierce and cruell invader.

1 Kings 20:34

Streets] the Italian, Piazzaes or Places, they might bee some Courts or Priviedged places in Damascus, where the Israelites had their Iudges and Magistrates depending upon the King of Israel, without any dependency upon the King of Syria. Or some Markets out of which the King of Israel had the tolls and other dues.

1 Kings 20:35

Of the Sons] there were certaine Schooles or Colledges of Prophets, where Schollars were taught, and did exercise themselves in holy Studies, to prepare themselves for Prophetick Revelations, and those Schooles were governed by certaine principall Prophets, called fathers 1 Sam. 10. 12. and 19. 20. 2 Kings 2:12 [in the word] declaring unto him that such was the will of God, whereof the other was also inwardly certified. Now by this example God shewed Ahab his error, and the punishment which should follow it.

1 Kings 20:38

VVith asher] the Italian, with a swathe, or a capp, or with dust.

1 Kings 20:40

So shall] that is to say, I adjudge and condemne the to doe, one or the other. For i the other were thy equall, thou confessest that of thine own free will thou madest such a covenant with him. And if hee was thy Master, Captain, o superior, thou were bound unto it by duty. So Ahab condemnes himselfe as David did 2 Samuel 12:5. for the Lord had put Benhadad into his hands to make him sure, for his peoples safety, and hee having freed him for his own particular profit, deserved to be punished for it.

1 Kings 20:42

Thy life] according to the Law of the accursed thing Deuteronomy 7:26 Ios. 7. 12.