1 Kings 20:34-36

Evangelical Heritage Version

³⁴ Ben Hadad said to him, “I will return the cities that my father took from your father, and you may put your own trading centers in Damascus, just as my father put them in Samaria.”

Then Ahab said, “Under these terms, I release you.” So he made a treaty^[a] with Ben Hadad and let him go.

God’s Judgment on Ahab

³⁵ Then by the word of the Lord one of the sons of the prophets^[b] said to his neighbor, “Strike me, please.” But the man refused to strike him. ³⁶ So he said to him, “Because you did not listen to the voice of the Lord, when you leave me, a lion will kill you.” When he left him, a lion found him and killed him.