20:1 Now King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled all his army, along with thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria 7 and besieged and attacked it. 8
1 tn Heb “to Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
2 tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”
3 tn Heb “and the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”
4 tn Heb “and a chariot went up and came out of Egypt for six hundred silver [pieces], and a horse for one hundred fifty, and in the same way to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram by their hand they brought out.”
5 tn Heb “grass.”
6 tn Heb “to cut off.”
7 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
8 tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.”
9 tn Heb “And you, you muster an army like the one that fell from you, horse like horse and chariot like chariot.”
10 tn Heb “he listened to their voice and did so.”
11 tn Heb “Like me, like you; like my people, like your people; like my horses; like your horses.”