1st Kings 20:6-13

⁶Therefore tomorrow, in this same hour, I shall send my servants to thee, and they shall seek throughout thine house, and the house of thy servants; and they shall put in their hands, and take away all thing that shall please them.

⁷Forsooth the king of Israel called all the elder men of the land, and said, Perceive ye, and see, that he setteth treason to us; for he sent to me for my wives, and sons, and for silver, and gold, and I forsook not.

⁸And all the greater men in birth, and all the people said to him, Hear thou not, neither assent thou to him.

⁹And he answered to the messengers of Benhadad, Say ye to my lord the king, I shall do all things, for which thou sentest in the beginning to me, thy servant; but I may not do this thing. And the messengers turned again, and told all things to him.

¹⁰Which sent again, and said, Gods do these things to me, and add these things too, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice to the fistful s of all the people that pursueth or followeth me.

¹¹And the king of Israel answered, and said, Say ye to him, A girded man, that is, he that goeth to battle, have not glory evenly as a man ungirded, that is, as he that hath the victory, and hath put off his armours.

¹²And it was done, when Benhadad had heard this word, he drank, and also the kings, in shadowing places; and he said to his servants, Encompass ye the city. And they encompassed it.

¹³And lo! one prophet nighed to Ahab, king of Israel, and said to him, The Lord God saith these things, Certainly thou hast seen all this multitude full great; lo! I shall betake it into thine hand today, that thou know that I am the Lord.