'Ready' in the Bible

Then the king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”

But the people said, “You should not go out; for if we indeed flee, they will not care about us; even if half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you be ready to help us from the city.”