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A Demand Meant to Be Rejected
Commentators explain that Ben-hadad's new demand was intentionally extreme. It wasn't a negotiation but a move to force total, unconditional surrender. By demanding the right to search and seize whatever was most 'pleasant,' he was aiming to humiliate and psychologically break Ahab, making the demand impossible to accept.
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1 Kings
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Kings 20:6
18th Century
Theologian
Ben-hadad, disappointed by Ahab’s consent to an indignity that he thought no monarch could endure, proceeds to reinterpret his former demands.
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Kings 20:6
19th Century
Bishop
Whatsoever is pleasant. —The demand, which is virtually for the plunder of Samaria, probably neither expects nor desires …
Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Kings 20:5–6
19th Century
Preacher
That is always the way with such people: give them an inch, and they take a mile. Ahab had agreed to all that the Syrian king claimed, so now Benha…
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John Gill
On 1 Kings 20:6
17th Century
Pastor
Yet I will send my servants unto thee tomorrow about this
time
He gave him twenty fou…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Kings 20:1–11
17th Century
Minister
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…