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When Ben Hadad heard this message as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, he said to his servants, “Prepare to attack!” So they prepared to attack the city.
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Verse 12. Pavilion, (umbraculis) or even under “the shade” of the trees, in full security. Menochius.—Beset. Hebrew “set, and they set against the city.” Chal. “hold yourselves in readiness, and they laid ambushes round the city.” The siege had not been yet commenced in form, as it was never expected that Achab would dare to make any resistance.
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