1 Kings 20:18-21
20:18 He ordered, “Whether they come in peace or to do battle, take them alive.” 1
20:19 They marched out of the city with the servants of the district governors in the lead and the army behind them.
20:20 Each one struck down an enemy soldier; 2 the Syrians fled and Israel chased them. King Ben Hadad of Syria escaped on horseback with some horsemen.
20:21 Then the king of Israel marched out and struck down the horses and chariots; he thoroughly defeated 3 Syria.
1 Kings 20:30
20:30 The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. 4 Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room. 5
1 tn Heb “if they come in peace, take them alive; if they come for battle, take them alive.”
2 tn Heb “each struck down his man.”
3 tn Heb “struck down Aram with a great striking down.”
4 tn Heb “and the remaining ones fled to Aphek to the city and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men, the ones who remained.”
5 tn Heb “and Ben Hadad fled and went into the city, [into] an inner room in an inner room.”