1 Kings 20:8-10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ All the elders and all the people said to him, ‘Don’t listen or agree.’

⁹ So he said to Ben-hadad’s messengers, ‘Say to my lord the king, “Everything you demanded of your servant the first time, I will do, but this thing I cannot do.” ’ So the messengers left and took word back to him.

¹⁰ Then Ben-hadad sent messengers to him and said, ‘May the gods punish me and do so severely^(A) if Samaria’s dust^(B) amounts to a handful for each of the people who follow me.’