2And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Here is, I. The threatening descent which Ben-hadad made upon Ahab’s kingdom, and the siege he laid to Samaria, his royal city, 1 Kgs. 20:1. What the ground of the quarrel was we are not told; covetousness and ambition were the principle, which would never want some pretence or other. David in his time had quite subdued the Syrians and made them tributaries to Israel, but Israel’s apostasy from Go…
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