1 Kings 20:32

So they put sackcloth around their loins and ropes on their necks, and came to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’” And Ahab asked, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”

1 Kings 20:3-6

‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your wives and your children, even the fairest, also are mine [as conditions of peace].’”

1 Samuel 15:8-20

He captured Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, though he totally destroyed all [the rest of] the people with the sword.

1 Kings 20:31

But his servants said to him, “We have heard that the kings of the house (royal line) of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth around our loins and ropes on our necks [as symbols of submission], and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life.”

1 Kings 20:42

He said to the king, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Because you have released from your hand the man [Ben-hadad] whom I had devoted to destruction, your life shall be required for his life, and your people for his people.’”

Job 12:17-18


“He makes [great and scheming] counselors walk barefoot
And makes fools of judges.

Job 40:11-12


“Pour out the overflowings of your wrath,
And look at everyone who is proud and make him low.

Isaiah 2:11-12


The proud look of man will be degraded
And the arrogance of men will be humbled,
And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 10:12

So when the Lord has completed all His work [of judgment] on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit [the thoughts, the declarations, and the actions] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the haughtiness of his pride.”

Daniel 5:20-23

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became so proud that he behaved arrogantly, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken away from him.

Obadiah 1:3-4


“The pride and arrogance of your heart have deceived you,
You who live in the clefts and lofty security of the rock (Sela),
Whose dwelling place is high,
Who say [boastfully] in your heart,
‘Who will bring me down to earth?’

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Summary

So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.

He is my brother

Bible References

Thy servant

1 Kings 20:3
‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your wives and your children, even the fairest, also are mine [as conditions of peace].’”
Job 12:17

“He makes [great and scheming] counselors walk barefoot
And makes fools of judges.
Job 40:11

“Pour out the overflowings of your wrath,
And look at everyone who is proud and make him low.
Isaiah 2:11

The proud look of man will be degraded
And the arrogance of men will be humbled,
And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 10:12
So when the Lord has completed all His work [of judgment] on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit [the thoughts, the declarations, and the actions] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the haughtiness of his pride.”
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became so proud that he behaved arrogantly, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken away from him.
Obadiah 1:3

“The pride and arrogance of your heart have deceived you,
You who live in the clefts and lofty security of the rock (Sela),
Whose dwelling place is high,
Who say [boastfully] in your heart,
‘Who will bring me down to earth?’

He is my brother

1 Kings 20:42
He said to the king, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Because you have released from your hand the man [Ben-hadad] whom I had devoted to destruction, your life shall be required for his life, and your people for his people.’”
1 Samuel 15:8
He captured Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, though he totally destroyed all [the rest of] the people with the sword.