6. yet I will send my slaves unto thee tomorrow about this time, and they shall search thy house and the houses of thy slaves; and it shall be that whatever is precious in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand and take it away.
7. Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, Understand, I pray you, and see how this man seeks only evil, for he sent unto me for my wives and for my children and for my silver and for my gold, and I denied him not.
8. And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.
9. So he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy slave at the first I will do, but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed and brought him word again.
10. And Benhadad sent unto him again and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, that the dust of Samaria shall not be enough for the open hands of all the people that follow me.
11. And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girds on his harness boast as he that puts it off.
12. And when he heard this word, as he was drinking with the kings in the pavilions, he said unto his slaves, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.
13. And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab, king of Israel, saying, Thus hath the Lord said, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into thy hand today, that thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
14. And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus hath the Lord said, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall begin the battle? And he answered, Thou.
15. Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the sons of Israel, being seven thousand.
16. And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings that helped him.
17. And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first. And Benhadad had sent out men who warned him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria.
18. Then he said, If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.