1And Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his force and thirty-two kings with him, and horse and chariot; and he ascended and laid siege to Samaria and fought against it.2And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel to the city.3And he said to him, "Thus says Ben-hadad: Your silver and your gold are mine, and your women and your pleasant sons are mine."4And the king of Israel answered and said, "According to your word, my lord the king: I and all that is mine are yours."5And the messengers returned and said, "Thus says Ben-hadad, saying, 'For I sent to you, saying, Your silver and your gold and your women and your sons you shall give to me.'"6But if at this time tomorrow I send my servants to you, they shall search your house and the houses of your servants, and it shall be that whatever you desire they shall take in their hand.7And the king of Israel called to all the elders of the land and said, "Know, please, and see, for this distress he seeks; for he sent to me for my women and for my sons and for my silver and for my gold, and I did not withhold from him."8And all the elders and all the people said to him, "Do not listen, and do not consent."9And he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, "Say to my lord the king, 'All that you sent to your servant at the first I will do, and this word I am not able to do.'" And the messengers went and brought him word.10And Ben-hadad sent to him and said, "Thus may God do to me and thus may he add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls to all the people who are at my feet."11And the king of Israel answered and said, "Speak: let not the one who girds boast like the one who opens."12And it was, when he heard this word, while he was drinking—he and the kings in the booths—that he said to his servants, "Set," and they set upon the city.