1 Kings 20:34 (KJV)
And Ben-hadad saidunto him The citieswhich my father tookfrom thy fatherI will restoreand thou shalt make streetsfor thee in Damascusas my father madein SamariaThen said Ahab I will send thee awaywith this covenantSo he madea covenantwith him and sent him away
Cross-references
The cities. 1Ki 15:20 2Ch 16:4
So he made a covenant.One of the conditions of this covenant, we learn, was, that Ahab should have "streets (chutzoth) in Damascus;" a proposal better relished by Ahab then understood by the generality of commentators. This, however, is well illustrated by Mr. Harmer, from William of Tyre, the great historian of the Crusades; from whom it appears that it was customary to give those nations which were engaged in them, churches, streets, and great jurisdiction therein, in those places which they assisted to conquer. The Genoese and Venetians had each a street in Acon, or Acre, in which they had their own jurisdiction, with liberty to have an oven, mill, baths, weights, and measures, etc. 1Ki 20:42 1Ki 22:31 2Ch 18:30 Isa 8:12 Isa 26:10
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