1 Kings 20:8-10

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⁸ “Don’t give him anything more,” the elders advised.

⁹ So he told the messengers from Ben-hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘I will give you everything you asked for the first time, but your men may not search the palace and the homes of the people.’”^[a] So the messengers returned to Ben-hadad.

¹⁰ Then the Syrian king sent this message to Ahab: “May the gods do more to me than I am going to do to you if I don’t turn Samaria into handfuls of dust!”