Yet I will send my servants unto you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in your eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Servants, or subjects. The king of Israel has thus a plea to interest all his people, as the danger was common. (Salien)
He assumes the character of disinterestedness, as if he had been willing to abandon all his private property; knowing that Benadad would not accede even to that hard proposal. (Haydock)
Thus "Nero consulted the first men of the city, whether they would prefer a doubtful war or a disgraceful peace. "(Tacitus, An. xv.)