1 Kings 20:31-34
his servants 1Kgs 20:23; 2Kgs 5:13 merciful kings Prov 20:28; Isa 16:5; Eph 1:7-8 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 1Kgs 21:27-29; Gen 37:34; 2Sam 3:31, 2Sam 14:2; 2Kgs 19:1-2; Esth 4:1-3; Isa 22:12; Isa 37:1; Jonah 3:5-6; Rev 11:3 peradventure 2Kgs 7:4; Esth 4:16; Job 2:4; Matt 10:28 Thy servant 1Kgs 20:3-6; Job 12:17-18, Job 40:11-12; Isa 2:11-12, Isa 10:12; Dan 5:20-23; Obad 1:3-4 he is my brother 1Kgs 20:42; 1Sam 15:8-20 the men Prov 25:13; Luke 16:8 and he caused 2Kgs 10:15; Acts 8:31 The cities 1Kgs 15:20; 2Chr 16:4 So he made a covenant One of the conditions of this covenant, we learn, was, that Ahab should have "streets (chutzoth) in Damascus;" a proposal better relished by Ahab then understood by the generality of commentators. This, however, is well illustrated by Mr. Harmer, from William of Tyre, the great historian of the Crusades; from whom it appears that it was customary to give those nations which were engaged in them, churches, streets, and great jurisdiction therein, in those places which they assisted to conquer. The Genoese and Venetians had each a street in Acon, or Acre, in which they had their own jurisdiction, with liberty to have an oven, mill, baths, weights, and measures, etc. 1Kgs 20:42, 1Kgs 22:31; 2Chr 18:30; Isa 8:12, Isa 26:10
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