'Ready' in the Bible

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 shall not go forth; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city."