1 Kings 20:31

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31 H5650 And his servants H559 [H8799] said H8085 [H8804] to him, Behold now, we have heard H4428 that the kings H1004 of the house H3478 of Israel H2617 are merciful H4428 kings H7760 [H8799] : let us, I pray thee, put H8242 sackcloth H4975 on our loins H2256 , and ropes H7218 upon our heads H3318 [H8799] , and go out H4428 to the king H3478 of Israel H2421 [H8762] : perhaps he will save H5315 thy life.

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his servants.
1 Kings 20:23; 2 Kings 5:13
merciful kings.
Proverbs 20:28; Isaiah 16:5; Ephesians 1:7; Ephesians 1:8
let us, I pray thee.Six of the citizens of Calais are reported to have acted nearly in the same manner, when they surrendered their city to Edward the Third, king of England, in 1346. See the whole story circumstantially related by Sir John Froissart, (who lived in that time,) with that simplicity and detail that give it every appearance of truth.
put sackcloth.
1 Kings 21:27-29; Genesis 37:34; 2 Samuel 3:31; 2 Samuel 14:2; 2 Kings 19:1; 2 Kings 19:2; Esther 4:1-3; Isaiah 22:12
Isaiah 37:1; Jonah 3:5; Jonah 3:6; Revelation 11:3
peradventure.
2 Kings 7:4; Esther 4:16; Job 2:4; Matthew 10:28