Treasury of Scripture
unto his servants
2 Kings 6:8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
Genesis 20:8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears...
Genesis 41:38 And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
1 Kings 20:7,23 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeks mischief...
I will now
2 Kings 7:1 Then Elisha said, Hear you the word of the LORD; Thus said the LORD...
2 Kings 5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God...
They know that we be hungry This was a very natural conclusion; and, in history of the revolt of Ali Bey, we have an account of a stratagem very similar to that supposed to have been practised by the Syrians. The pasha of Damascus having approached the Sea of Tiberias, found sheik Daher encamped there; but the sheik, deferring the engagement till the next morning, during the night divided his army into three parts, and left the camp with great fires blazing, all sorts of provisions, and a large quantity of spiritous liquors. In the middle of the night, the pasha, thinking to surprise the sheik, marched in silence to the camp, which, to his astonishment, he found entirely abandoned; and imagining the sheik had fled with so much precipitation that he could not carry off his baggage and stores, he stopped in the camp to refresh his soldiers. They soon fell to plunder, and drank so freely of the spirits, that, overcome with its fumes, they sunk into a deep lethargy. At that time, two sheiks came silently to the camp, and being rejoined by Daher, rushed upon the sleeping foe,
8,000 of whom were slain; the pasha and a few soldiers barely escaping with their lives.
2 Kings 6:25-29 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver...
hide themselves
Joshua 8:4-12 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city...
Judges 20:29-37 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah...