1 KINGS 20:6 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.”
Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh a quarrel: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not — Ahab consults his elders, noting that he had not refused Ben-hadad's first demands yet the king escalates. The phrase shows Ahab recognizing the futility of submission.
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