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Ahab Defeats the Syrians

¹Now ⚓Ben-Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his forces together; thirty-two kings were with him, with horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged ⚓Samaria, and made war against it. ²Then he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, and said to him, “Thus says Ben-Hadad: ³‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your loveliest wives and children are mine.’ ”
⁴And the king of Israel answered and said, “My lord, O king, just as you say, I and all that I have are yours.”
⁵Then the messengers came back and said, “Thus speaks Ben-Hadad, saying, ‘Indeed I have sent to you, saying, “You shall deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children”; ⁶but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants. And it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hands and take it.’ ”
⁷So the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Notice, please, and see how this man seeks trouble, for he sent to me for my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold; and I did not deny him.”
⁸And all the elders and all the people said to him, “Do not listen or consent.”
⁹Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben-Hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you sent for to your servant the first time I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’ ”
And the messengers departed and brought back word to him.
¹⁰Then Ben-Hadad sent to him and said, ⚓“The gods do so to me, and more also, if enough dust is left of Samaria for a handful for each of the people who follow me.”
¹¹So the king of Israel answered and said, “Tell him, ‘Let not the one who puts on his armor⚓boast like the one who takes it off.’ ”
¹²And it happened when Ben-Hadad heard this message, as he and the kings were⚓drinking at the command post, that he said to his servants, “Get ready.” And they got ready to attack the city.
¹³Suddenly a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel, saying, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, ⚓I will deliver it into your hand today, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’ ”
¹⁴So Ahab said, “By whom?”
And he said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘By the young leaders of the provinces.’ ”
Then he said, “Who will set the battle in order?”
And he answered, “You.”
¹⁵Then he mustered the young leaders of the provinces, and there were two hundred and thirty-two; and after them he mustered all the people, all the children of Israel—seven thousand.
¹⁶So they went out at noon. Meanwhile Ben-Hadad and the thirty-two kings helping him were ⚓getting drunk at the command post. ¹⁷The young leaders of the provinces went out first. And Ben-Hadad sent out a patrol, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out of Samaria!” ¹⁸So he said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; and if they have come out for war, take them alive.”
¹⁹Then these young leaders of the provinces went out of the city with the army which followed them. ²⁰And each one killed his man; so the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the cavalry. ²¹Then the king of Israel went out and attacked the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.
²²And the prophet came to the king of Israel and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself; take note, and see what you should do, ⚓for in the spring of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.”

The Syrians Again Defeated

²³Then the servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. Therefore they were stronger than we; but if we fight against them in the plain, surely we will be stronger than they. ²⁴So do this thing: Dismiss the kings, each from his position, and put captains in their places; ²⁵and you shall muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain; surely we will be stronger than they.”
And he listened to their voice and did so.
²⁶So it was, in the spring of the year, that Ben-Hadad mustered the Syrians and went up to ⚓Aphek to fight against Israel. ²⁷And the children of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and they went against them. Now the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, while the Syrians filled the ⚓countryside.
²⁸Then a ⚓man of God came and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Because the Syrians have said, “The Lordis God of the hills, but He is not God of the valleys,” therefore ⚓I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’ ” ²⁹And they encamped opposite each other for seven days. So it was that on the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand foot soldiers of the Syrians in one day. ³⁰But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; then a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the men who were left.
And Ben-Hadad fled and went into the city, into an inner chamber.

Ahab’s Treaty with Ben-Hadad

³¹Then his servants said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please, let us ⚓put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life.” ³²So they wore sackcloth around their waists and put ropes around their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-Hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’ ”
And he said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”
³³Now the men were watching closely to see whether any sign of mercy would come from him; and they quickly grasped at this word and said, “Your brother Ben-Hadad.”
So he said, “Go, bring him.” Then Ben-Hadad came out to him; and he had him come up into the chariot.
³⁴So Ben-Hadad said to him, ⚓“The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you may set up marketplaces for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.”
Then Ahab said, “I will send you away with this treaty.” So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.

Ahab Condemned

³⁵Now a certain man of ⚓the sons of the prophets said to his neighbor ⚓by the word of the Lord, “Strike me, please.” And the man refused to strike him. ³⁶Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, surely, as soon as you depart from me, a lion shall kill you.” And as soon as he left him, ⚓a lion found him and killed him.
³⁷And he found another man, and said, “Strike me, please.” So the man struck him, inflicting a wound. ³⁸Then the prophet departed and waited for the king by the road, and disguised himself with a bandage over his eyes. ³⁹Now ⚓as the king passed by, he cried out to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and there, a man came over and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, ⚓your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’ ⁴⁰While your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.”
Then the king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it.”
⁴¹And he hastened to take the bandage away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets. ⁴²Then he said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ⚓‘Because you have let slip out of your hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.’ ”
⁴³So the king of Israel ⚓went to his house sullen and displeased, and came to Samaria.

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Ahap Chíl Riap Cũai Si-ri

¹Ben-hadat la puo cũai Si-ri; án parỗm nheq tữh tahan cớp pái chít la bar náq puo canŏ́h ca pruam rachuai án. Tỗp alới yỗn tahan aséh cớp cũai dững sễ aséh rachíl ỡt crŏ́q lavíng vil Sa-mari ễ mut rachíl. ²Án ớn cũai ayững atĩ án mut tâng vil, pỡq ramóh Ahap puo cũai I-sarel cớp atỡng neq: “Puo Ben-hadat ớn anhia chĩuq pê, ³cớp ớn anhia chiau práq, yễng, tỗp mansễm, cớp tỗp carnễn bán rêng yỗn án.”
⁴Puo Ahap ta‑ỡi: “Anhia pỡq atỡng loah Ben-hadat la sốt anhia, pai cứq pruam, cớp ễ yỗn dũ ramứh án ễ bữn.”
⁵Chơ máh cũai ayững atĩ ki toâq ramóh sĩa puo Ahap, cớp dững santoiq puo Ben-hadat pai neq: “Cứq khoiq ớn cũai pỡq atỡng anhia yỗn chiau práq, yễng, tỗp mansễm, cớp máh carnễn bán rêng o yỗn cứq. ⁶Ma cứq ễ ớn cũai cứq pỡq ramóh anhia tangái parnỡ sâm máh tangái nâi sĩa; tỗp alới ễ chuaq lulóc ĩt nheq crơng tâng dống anhia, dếh tâng dống cũai ayững atĩ anhia; acán ntrớu alới hữm o tỗp alới ĩt nheq.”
⁷Chơ puo Ahap arô máh cũai sốt tâng cruang ki toâq ramóh án, cớp án atỡng alới neq: “Tỗp anhia hữm chơ cũai samiang nâi chuaq ralíh chóq cứq. Yuaq án sễq máh lacuoi cớp con hái, práq cớp yễng hái; cớp cứq ữq chiau yỗn án.”
⁸Tỗp cũai sốt cớp cũai proai ta‑ỡi neq: “Chỗi tamứng parnai án pai, cớp chỗi chĩuq pê.”
⁹Yuaq ngkíq, puo Ahap loŏh ta‑ỡi ayững atĩ puo Ben-hadat neq: “Anhia chu atỡng loah puo anhia, ŏ́c muoi ki cứq pruam, ma ŏ́c bar ki cứq tỡ bữn pruam.”
Máh cũai ayững atĩ ki loŏh, cớp alới dững atoâq máh santoiq puo Ahap pai. ¹⁰Chơ puo Ben-hadat cơiq parnai canŏ́h neq: “Cứq ễ dững tahan clứng toâq talốh vil Sa-mari; lứq samoât cutễq anhia tỡ bữn dũ yỗn tahan cứq ĩt muoi noaq muoi carpỗt. Khân cứq tỡ bữn táq ariang cứq pai, sễq máh yiang táq yỗn cứq cuchĩt toâp.”
¹¹Puo Ahap ta‑ỡi: “Pỡq, anhia chu atỡng puo Ben-hadat neq: ‘Tahan rangoaiq cớp clŏ́q, cóq moâm rachíl voai nŏ́q têq achỗn tỗ bữm, tỡ cỡn tỡ yũah loŏh rachíl ma khoiq achỗn tỗ nhũang.’”
¹²Puo Ben-hadat bữn roap santoiq puo Ahap ta‑ỡi bo án cớp tỗp yớu án, dếh puo canŏ́h ntôm tacu nguaiq blŏ́ng tâng dống aroâiq. Chơ án ớn tỗp tahan thrũan loŏh rachíl. Ngkíq tỗp alới thrũan mut chíl vil ki.
¹³Bo ki toâp bữn muoi noaq cũai tang bỗq Yiang Sursĩ toâq ramóh puo Ahap, cớp atỡng án neq: “Yiang Sursĩ atỡng neq: ‘Chỗi ngcŏh tỗp tahan clứng lứq ki. Tangái nâi cứq ễ yỗn mới chíl riap tỗp alới; ngkíq mới bữn dáng samoât lứq cứq la Yiang Sursĩ!’”
¹⁴Puo Ahap blớh loah: “Noau cỡt plỡ pỡq nhũang rachíl trỗ nâi?”
Cũai tang bỗq ki ta‑ỡi: “Yiang Sursĩ atỡng la cóq máh tỗp tahan póng ca táq ranáq pưn máh cũai sốt dũ ntốq pỡq nhũang.”
Ahap blớh ễn neq: “Noau cỡt taniap tahan clứng lứq ki?”
Cũai tang bỗq ki ta‑ỡi: “Mới toâp!”
¹⁵Ngkíq, puo Ahap ớn dũ náq tahan póng ca ỡt pưn máh cũai sốt dũ ntốq toâq ramóh án; mán bữn bar culám pái chít la bar náq. Chơ án arô tahan I-sarel tapul ngin náq ễn toâq.
¹⁶Alới loŏh rachíl bo mandang catếh toâng; ma bo ki puo Ben-hadat cớp pái chít la bar náq puo ratoi cớp án ntôm nguaiq blŏ́ng tâng dống aroâiq. ¹⁷Tỗp tahan póng loŏh pỡq nhũang. Puo Ben-hadat khoiq ớn máh cũai pỡq tutuaiq, cớp alới chu atỡng án neq: “Bữn muoi tỗp tahan ntôm toâq tễ vil Sa-mari.”
¹⁸Ma án ớn neq: “Anhia loŏh cỗp nheq máh cũai ki, tam tỗp alới toâq ễ rachíl tỡ la toâq ễ sarhống.”
¹⁹Tỗp tahan póng nâi loŏh rachíl, cớp tỗp tahan I-sarel ntôm pỡq tapun. ²⁰Dũ náq alới bữn cachĩt máh cũai ca chíl tỗp alới, chơ tỗp Si-ri lúh pláh nheq; ma tahan cũai I-sarel puai tỗp alới tỡ táh. Puo Ben-hadat chỗn tâng aséh, chơ lúh vớt tễ alới, cớp bữn muoi thrỗq tahan lúh parnơi cớp án. ²¹Puo Ahap dững tahan án pỡq rapuai alới; án chíl riap sễ aséh rachíl tỗp Si-ri, cớp cachĩt máh tahan Si-ri sa‑ữi lứq.
²²Chơ bữn muoi noaq cũai tang bỗq Yiang Sursĩ toâq pỡ puo Ahap cớp pai neq: “Cóq anhia loŏh parỗm loah máh tahan cớp aloŏh ngê yỗn khễuq, yuaq puo Si-ri ễ toâq chíl loah anhia bo catữ sala aluang báiq.”

Tỗp Si-ri Toâq Chíl Trỗ bar

²³Máh cũai ayững atĩ puo Ben-hadat pai chóq án neq: “Máh yiang cũai I-sarel la yiang ỡt tâng máh cóh king, ngkíq yuaq tỗp alới chíl riap tỗp hái. Khân tỗp hái chíl tỗp alới tâng ntốq tapín, ki tỗp hái chíl riap alới. ²⁴Sanua, sễq anhia alíh puo pái chít la bar náq nâi, chơ chóh cũai taniap tahan tamái ễn. ²⁵Cóq ĩt loah tahan yỗn pỡq sa‑ữi, yỗn dũ loah machớng thrỗq tahan khoiq pứt, dếh aséh, cớp sễ aséh rachíl. Trỗ nâi, tỗp hái loŏh chíl cũai I-sarel tâng ntốq tapín, chơ tỗp hái bữn riap.”
Puo Ben-hadat pruam tê cớp santoiq tỗp alới tĩeih. ²⁶Toâq catữ sala aluang báiq, án dững tahan án pỡq chu vil Aphéc dŏq chíl tỗp I-sarel. ²⁷Tỗp I-sarel rưoh tahan cớp chiau crơng choac yỗn alới, dếh thrũan sanyam hỡ. Máh cũai sốt tahan I-sarel dững tahan caryoah cỡt bar tỗp ỡt choâng-rachoâng cớp tỗp tahan Si-ri. Khân ễ talĩ tahan I-sarel cớp tahan Si-ri, ki tahan I-sarel cỡt ariang bar tỗp mbễq bĩq lứq. Ma tỗp Si-ri ki ỡt chũop nheq tâng cruang ki.
²⁸Bữn cũai tang bỗq Yiang Sursĩ toâq ramóh puo Ahap cớp pai neq: “Yiang Sursĩ atỡng hếq neq: ‘Cỗ tian tỗp alới pai cứq la Yiang ỡt tâng cóh king, cớp tỡ cỡn Yiang nhêng salĩq tâng ntốq tapín; ngkíq cứq ễ yỗn mới chíl riap tỗp tahan clứng lứq ki. Chơ mới cớp cũai proai mới dáng samoât lứq, cứq toâp la Yiang Sursĩ.’”
²⁹Nheq tapul tangái tahan I-sarel cớp tahan Si-ri ỡt choâng-rachoâng. Tâng tangái tapul, bar tỗp nâi loŏh rachíl; cớp tahan tỗp I-sarel bữn cachĩt tahan Si-ri muoi culám ngin náq tâng muoi tangái. ³⁰Máh alới ca noâng tamoong lúh nheq chu vil Aphéc, ma pĩeiq viang vil ralíh, catât 27,000 náq cuchĩt nheq.
Puo Ben-hadat lúh chu vil ki tê, cớp tooq tâng clống dống. ³¹Máh cũai ayững atĩ án atỡng neq: “Tỗp hếq sâng noau pai puo cũai I-sarel bữn mứt pahỡm saryóq. Ngkíq sễq anhia yỗn hếq ĩt aroâiq acrơiq catoân tâng ngkĩng hếq, cớp ĩt samữ sacuoiq tâng tacong hếq, chơ pỡq ramóh án; cŏh lơ án dŏq dỡi tamoong anhia cống bữn.”
³²Chơ tỗp alới ĩt aroâiq acrơiq catoân tâng ngkĩng alới, cớp ĩt samữ sacuoiq tâng tacong alới; moâm ki alới pỡq ramóh puo Ahap cớp pai neq: “Puo Ben-hadat ca táq ranáq anhia, án sễq anhia dŏq yỗn án bữn tamoong!”
Puo Ahap ta‑ỡi: “Án noâng tamoong tỡ? O! Yỗn án cỡt samoât a‑ễm samiang cứq ễn.”
³³Máh cũai ayững atĩ puo Ben-hadat ỡt acoan yoc ễ bữn tếc; ma tữ alới sâng puo Ahap pai neq: “Án la samoât a‑ễm cứq;” ngkíq tỗp alới roap toâp santoiq Ahap, chơ alới ta‑ỡi: “Lứq pĩeiq anhia pai, Ben-hadat la a‑ễm anhia!”
Puo Ahap pai ễn: “Anhia dững án toâq ramóh cứq.”
Tữ puo Ben-hadat toâq, puo Ahap mơi án ỡt sễ aséh parnơi. ³⁴Puo Ben-hadat pai chóq án neq: “Cứq ễ culáh loah yỗn mới máh vil mpoaq cứq cheng ĩt tễ mpoaq mới, dŏq mới táq ntốq chếq chỡng tâng vil Damac machớng mpoaq cứq khoiq táq dŏq pỡ vil Sa-mari tê.”
Puo Ahap ta‑ỡi: “Cỗ tễ ranáq nâi yuaq cứq acláh mới.”
Puo Ahap táq tếc parkhán cớp puo Ben-hadat, chơ án acláh puo Ben-hadat.

Cũai Tang Bỗq Yiang Sursĩ Patôt Ahap

³⁵Bữn muoi noaq samiang tễ tỗp cũai tang bỗq Yiang Sursĩ, án ớn muoi noaq cũai tang bỗq canŏ́h tapáh án, ma cũai ki tỡ ễq tapáh. ³⁶Yuaq ngkíq, án atỡng neq: “Cỗ tian mới tỡ bữn trĩh santoiq Yiang Sursĩ ớn, toâq cứq pỡq vớt tễ mới bữn cula samín toâq cáp mới yỗn cuchĩt.”
Vớt ki, cula samín toâq cáp cũai ki toau cuchĩt.
³⁷Chơ cũai tang bỗq Yiang Sursĩ ki pỡq ramóh muoi noaq samiang canŏ́h ễn cớp ớn án neq: “Mới tapáh cứq nứng cái tôh!”
Cũai samiang ki trĩh; chơ án tapáh cũai tang bỗq ki muoi taláp rêng lứq, táq yỗn cũai tang bỗq Yiang Sursĩ sâng a‑ĩ. ³⁸Cũai tang bỗq Yiang Sursĩ ĩt aroâiq tán mieiq; án táq nan án cũai canŏ́h cớp pỡq tayứng kễng rana acoan puo I-sarel pỡq pha. ³⁹Toâq puo I-sarel pha rana ki, cũai tang bỗq Yiang Sursĩ arô casang lứq neq: “Puo hếq ơi! Bo hếq ỡt tâng ntốq rachíl bữn muoi noaq cũai tahan dững cũai tũ toâq pỡ hếq cớp patâp neq: ‘Mới nhêng salĩq cũai samiang nâi yỗn o nơ. Khân án lúh, mới cóq pláih loah rangứh mới toâp, tỡ la tu práq pái ngin ŏ́c.’ ⁴⁰Ma hếq miaq tamprưo cớp ranáq canŏ́h, chơ cũai tũ ki lúh chíq.”
Puo cũai I-sarel ta‑ỡi: “Mới cóq roap tôt, yuaq mới chống ngin bữm.”
⁴¹Chơ án liei aloŏh aroâiq tán mieiq án; ma bo ki toâp puo sacoal án la cũai tang bỗq Yiang Sursĩ. ⁴²Chơ cũai tang bỗq Yiang Sursĩ pai chóq puo neq: “Nâi la santoiq Yiang Sursĩ pai: ‘Cỗ mới acláh cũai ca cứq ớn cachĩt, ngkíq cóq mới pláih toâq rangứh mới toâp, cớp tỗp tahan mới lứq pĩeiq noau pupứt táh nheq, la cỗ tian mới acláh cũai ki.’”
⁴³Puo cũai I-sarel toâq loah pỡ vil Sa-mari, ma án clơng cớp sâng túh ngua lứq tâng mứt.