Ahab’s reply has the air of a proverb, with which people of the East have always loved to answer an enemy.

That was a sharp, shrewd check to the boasting of the Syrian king.

Ver. 11 And the king of Israel answered and said
Very mildly and very wisely:

tell him, let not h…

Benhadad sent Ahab a very insolent demand. Ahab sent a very disgraceful submission; sin brings people into such straits, by putting them out of Div…