Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 20:3
Thy silver and thy gold [is] mine; thy wives also and thy children, [even] the goodliest, [are] mine.
3. even the goodliest ] These words are omitted in the LXX. The claim laid to the wives and children would in Oriental eyes amount to a deposition of the monarch, or a deprivation of his royal power. It was one of the first acts of a conqueror to seize the wives of the vanquished opponent. Ahab’s fear of going forth would encourage Ben-hadad to treat him thus, just as his submissive answer at first only led to larger demands on the part of the besieger.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
I challenge them as my own, and accordingly expect to have them forthwith delivered into my possession, if thou expectest peace with me.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Thy silver and thy gold is mine,…. Not of right, but reckoning it as good as in his hands, Ahab not being able to resist him:
and thy wives also; for it seems he had more than Jezebel:
and thy children; which were many, for he had no less than seventy sons, 2Ki 10:1,
even the goodliest are mine: some aggravate this, as if his view was to commit the unnatural sin with his male children, when in his possession.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
3. Thy silver and thy gold is mine This demand was somewhat ambiguous and uncertain, and Ahab seems to have understood it as merely a proposition of Ben-hadad to raise the siege and go away from Samaria on condition of receiving certain amounts of gold and silver, and the goodliest of his wives and children, leaving Ahab to make the selection.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
1Ki 20:3 Thy silver and thy gold [is] mine; thy wives also and thy children, [even] the goodliest, [are] mine.
Ver. 3. Thy silver and thy gold is mine. ] Non iure, sed imperio; not by any right that Benbadad had to it, but because he was at this time mightier than Ahab, and able, as he thought, to over power him. Thus a great dog worrieth a less, only because he is bigger and stronger.
“ Sic cedit viribus aequum. ”
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
children = sons.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Exo 15:9, Isa 10:13, Isa 10:14
Reciprocal: 1Ki 20:32 – Thy servant
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ki 20:3-4. Thy silver and thy gold is mine I challenge them as my own, and expect to have them forthwith delivered, if thou expect peace with me. The king said, My lord, O king, I am thine I do so far comply with thy demand, that I will own thee for my lord, and myself for thy vassal, and will hold my wives, and children, and estate, as by thy favour, and with an acknowledgment.