1 KINGS 20:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Ben–hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.”
And Ben-hadad sent unto him, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me — Ben-hadad responds with a curse formula expressing his determination to overwhelm Samaria. The phrase invokes an ancient Near Eastern metaphor: his army is so vast that even the dust of Samaria's ground (used as soil) will not suffice for handfuls for his troops.
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