The interpretation timeline

1Kgs 20:20

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1Kgs 20:20 · Douay-Rheims
“And every one slew the man that came against him: and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued after them. And Benadad king of Syria fled away on horseback with his horsemen.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
373
A.D.
Ephrem the Syrian Patristic
c. A.D. 306–373
“Here the Scripture relates the two battles of the king of Israel against the Arameans, at which we have already hinted, and the twin slaughters of the Arameans, of which the second caused the death of 127, men, as God took his revenge on the impious voice of the Arameans, who said about the true God worshiped by the Israelites, "The Lord is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys."”
Source
470
A.D.
Salvian the Presbyter Patristic
c. A.D. 400–470
“Did not the Lord wish Ben-hadad, king of Syria, whom besides countless thousands of his own people, thirty-two kings and armies of the same number of kings served, to be conquered by a few foot soldiers of the princes in order that he who was the author of such victory would be acknowledged?”
Modern · 1953 →

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