Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 20:4
And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I [am] thine, and all that I have.
4. according to thy saying ] The R.V. inserts It is before these words and thus brings out the division of the verse as marked in the Hebrew. The order of words in the original is ‘It is according to thy saying, my lord, O king.’
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 4. I am thine, and all that I have.] He probably hoped by this humiliation to soften this barbarous king, and perhaps to get better conditions.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
I do so far comply with thy demand, that I will own thee for my lord, and myself for thy vassal and tributary; and will hold my wives, and children, and estate as by thy favour, and with an acknowledgment. But it is not likely that he would deliver up his wives and children into the barbarians hand, or that his proud and imperious wife Jezebel would permit him to do so.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And the king of Israel answered and said, my lord, O king,…. So he said to Benhadad’s messengers, representing him, as acknowledging his sovereignty over him:
according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have: which he understood of holding all that he had of him, by giving him homage, and paying him tribute; not that he was to deliver all his substance, and especially his wives and children, into his hands.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
4. I am thine, and all that I have He pusillanimously agrees to make himself and his whole kingdom tributary to Ben-hadad.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
1Ki 20:4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I [am] thine, and all that I have.
Ver. 4. I am thine, and all that I have. ] This, say some, was responsum admodum muliebre, a very cowardly answer of Ahab. Others hold that he did well and wisely, whilst, as a reed in a tempest, he thus stoopeth to the violent charge of so potent an enemy. It is not for the overpowered to capitulate; weakness may not argue, but yield.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
I am thine: Lev 26:36, Deu 28:48, Jdg 15:11-13, 1Sa 13:6, 1Sa 13:7, 2Ki 18:14-16
Reciprocal: 1Ki 2:38 – The saying 1Ki 20:7 – denied him not 2Ki 10:5 – We are thy servants 2Ki 16:7 – I am thy servant 1Co 6:19 – and ye
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
20:4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, {b} I [am] thine, and all that I have.
(b) I am content to obey and pay tribute.