1 Kings 20:33-35

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³³ Now the men were watching for an omen; they quickly took it up from him and said, ‘Yes, Ben-hadad is your brother.’ Then he said, ‘Go and bring him.’ So Ben-hadad came out to him; and he had him come up into the chariot. ³⁴ Ben-hadad^[a] said to him, ‘I will restore the towns that my father took from your father; and you may establish bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.’ The king of Israel responded,^[b] ‘I will let you go on those terms.’ So he made a treaty with him and let him go.

A Prophet Condemns Ahab

³⁵ At the command of the Lord a certain member of a company of prophets^[c] said to another, ‘Strike me!’ But the man refused to strike him.