So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Kings 20:19 in context
1 Kings 20:16–22
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They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.
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The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out from Samaria.”
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He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”
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So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.
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They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.
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The king of Israel went out and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.
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The prophet came near to the king of Israel and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and plan what you must do, for at the return of the year, the king of Syria will come up against you.”
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