1 Kings 20:18

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¹⁸He said, “If they’ve come in peace, take them alive as hostages; if they’ve come to fight, the same—take them alive as hostages.”

He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive. Or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

So he said, “If they have marched out in peace, take them alive, and if they have marched out for battle, take them alive.”

“Take them alive,” Ben-hadad commanded, “whether they have come for peace or for war.”

Then he said, “If they have come out for peace, seize them alive; and if they have come out for war, seize them alive.”

And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.

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