ben-hadad's

Updated: May 10, 2025

There is growth, the law of increase as well as of perpetuity. The seed produces 'some sixty and some an hundredfold. And so the slaughtered soldiers and desolated homesteads of Israel were the sequel of the cloth on Ben-hadad's face. The secret of much enormous crime is the kind of relief from conscience which is found in committing a yet greater sin.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture: Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra,: and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes

He was the commander-in-chief of the army of Damascus, high in favour at Ben-hadad's court; his reputation and renown were on every tongue, but he was a leper. There is a 'but' in every fortune, as there is a 'but' in every character.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel,: Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII