1 Kings 20:14-22 Ahab asked: »How will this be done?« The prophet answered: »This is what Jehovah says: ‘By using the young officers of the district governors.« »Who will start the battle?« Ahab asked. »You will,« the prophet answered.

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ Ahab asked: »How will this be done?« The prophet answered: »This is what Jehovah says: ‘By using the young officers of the district governors.« »Who will start the battle?« Ahab asked. »You will,« the prophet answered. ¹⁵ Ahab mustered the young officers of the district governors. There were two hundred and thirty-two. After counting them, he counted all the Israelite soldiers. There were seven thousand. ¹⁶ In the middle of the day they went out. But Benhadad was drinking in the tents with the thirty-two kings who were helping him. ¹⁷ The servants of the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land went forward first. Benhadad sent out a patrol and they told him: »Men have come out from Samaria.« ¹⁸ He said: »If they have come out for peace, take them alive and if they have come out for war, take them alive.« ¹⁹ So the servants of the chiefs of the divisions of the land went out of the town, with the army following them. ²⁰ Each one killed his opponent. The Syrians (Aramaeans) went in flight with Israel after them. Benhadad the king of Aram got away safely on a horse with his horsemen. ²¹ The king of Israel took the horses and the war-carriages and caused great destruction among the Syrians. ²² Then the prophet came up to the king of Israel, and said: »Now make yourself strong. Be careful what you do. Otherwise a year from now the king of Aram will come up against you again.«