1 Kings 20:32

So they dressed with sackcloth around their waists and ropes around their heads, went to the king of Israel, and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please spare my life.’”

So he said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”

1 Kings 20:3-6

‘Your silver and your gold are mine! And your best wives and children are mine as well!’”

1 Samuel 15:8-20

He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but he completely destroyed all the rest of the people with the sword.

1 Kings 20:31

His servants said to him, “Consider this: we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. So let’s put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and let’s go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.”

1 Kings 20:42

The prophet said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because you released from your hand the man I had set apart for destruction, it will be your life in place of his life and your people in place of his people.’”

Job 12:17-18

He leads counselors away barefoot
and makes judges go mad.

Job 40:11-12

Unleash your raging anger;
look on every proud person and humiliate him.

Isaiah 2:11-12

Human pride will be humbled,
and the loftiness of men will be brought low;
the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

Isaiah 10:12

But when the Lord finishes all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes.”

Daniel 5:20-23

But when his heart was exalted and his spirit became arrogant, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken from him.

Obadiah 1:3-4

Your presumptuous heart has deceived you,
you who live in clefts of the rock
in your home on the heights,
who say to yourself,
“Who can bring me down to the ground?”

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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! And your best wives and children are mine as well!’”
Job 12:17
He leads counselors away barefoot
and makes judges go mad.
Job 40:11
Unleash your raging anger;
look on every proud person and humiliate him.
Isaiah 2:11
Human pride will be humbled,
and the loftiness of men will be brought low;
the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
Isaiah 10:12
But when the Lord finishes all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes.”
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was exalted and his spirit became arrogant, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken from him.
Obadiah 1:3
Your presumptuous heart has deceived you,
you who live in clefts of the rock
in your home on the heights,
who say to yourself,
“Who can bring me down to the ground?”

He is my brother

1 Kings 20:42
The prophet said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because you released from your hand the man I had set apart for destruction, it will be your life in place of his life and your people in place of his people.’”
1 Samuel 15:8
He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but he completely destroyed all the rest of the people with the sword.

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