This document provides a summary of 1 Kings 20, which describes a confrontation between Ahab, king of Israel, and Benhadad, king of Syria. Initially, Ahab immediately surrenders to Benhadad's demands to take all his possessions and family. However, after the elders counsel Ahab not to give in, Ahab finds courage to tell Benhadad's messengers he will not comply fully with the demands. The document analyzes Ahab's actions, noting that when he turned away from God, he became cowardly, but finding strength when reconnecting with God and taking the elders' advice.

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January 25, 2015

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1 Kings 20 1 And
Benhadad the king of
Syria gathered all his
host together: and there
were thirty and two kings
with him, and horses, and
chariots: and he went up
and besieged Samaria,
and warred against it.
Ahab is king of Israel
at Samaria.
Samaria is south of Syria, but the elevation is up.

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Damascus is the
capital of Syria.
Samaria is the
capital of Israel.

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2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel
into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith
Benhadad, 3 Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy
wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are
mine.
Benhadad is cocky; he has 32 kings as allies,
and an army that has flooded the hills.
Israel has no great army, and a chicken for a king.

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4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My
lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine,
and all that I have.
Ahab immediately surrendered.
He didn’t pray.
He didn’t call
for a man of
God.
“I’ll be your
slave.”

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3 Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also
and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.
He was taking everything worth anything.
Benhadad’s demands:
Ahab looked at the dire situation and said,
“okay.”
Logically speaking, he did the only thing he could do.
But, Ahab discounted The Hand of God.

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It was a hopeless situation,
naturally speaking.
And Ahab was not a
worshipper of the
True God.
He followed his wife in idolatry.

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Benhadad sent Ahab a very insolent demand. Ahab
sent a very disgraceful submission; sin brings men
into such straits, by putting them out of the Divine
protection. If God does not rule us, our enemies
shall: guilt dispirits men, and makes them cowards.
Ahab became desperate. Men will part with their
most pleasant things, those they most love, to save
their lives; yet they lose their souls rather than part
with any pleasure or interest to prevent it.
Matthew Henry Concise Bible Commentary

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5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus
speaketh Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent
unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver,
and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children; 6 Yet
I will send my servants unto thee tomorrow about
this time, and they shall search thine house, and the
houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that
whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put
it in their hand, and take it away.
Ahab surrendered so easily that Benhadad
decided to take more.

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Once we give place to the devil, he invades
and takes more and more of our lives.
Romans 6 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants (slaves) to obey, his servants
ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death,
or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But God be
thanked, that ye were the servants (slaves) of sin,
but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of
doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then
made free from sin, ye became the servants of
righteousness.

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We’re gonna serve somebody.
The devil offers the
pleasures of sin for a
season, but ending in
death and hell fire.
Our Lord offers eternal
life with joy, peace,
and love in Him.

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Sin is like Benhadad -- it will take everything
from you that worth anything.
Sin will take your wife, your children, your job,
all your money and worthwhile possessions.
The longer we serve sin,
the more it will take.

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Don’t do as Ahab did and
surrender all that’s good in
life to the enemy.
Resist the devil.
Reject sin.

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1 Peter 2 24 Who His Own Self bare our sins in His
Own Body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins,
should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye
were healed.
Sin has no power over the children of God.
We can live unto righteousness.
Choose!

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7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the
land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this
man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my
wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and
for my gold; and I denied him not. 8 And all the
elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken
not unto him, nor consent.
We have to draw a line in the sand and say,
“No more.”
Good counsel

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James 4 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
We must never yield an inch to the devil.
Stand strong in the Power of God.
Say “NO” to sin.

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9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers of
Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst
send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this
thing I may not do. And the messengers departed,
and brought him word again.
Finally, Ahab showed some backbone!
Why was he so cowardly before?
He had turned his back on The True God.

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As long as we walk with God
we are strong.