1 Kings 20:24
Good News Translation
Now, remove the thirty-two rulers from their commands and replace them with field commanders.

New Revised Standard Version
Also do this: remove the kings, each from his post, and put commanders in place of them;

Contemporary English Version
Here's what you should do. First, get rid of those 32 kings and put army commanders in their places.

New American Bible
This is what you must do: Take the kings from their posts and put prefects in their places.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do thou, therefore, this thing: Remove all the kings from thy army, and put captains in their stead:

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Do thou, therefore, this thing: Remove all the kings from thy army, and put captains in their stead:

1 Kings 20:30 And they that remained fled to Aphec, into the city: and the wall fell upon seven and twenty thousand men, that were left. And Benadad fleeing, went into the city, into a chamber that was within a chamber.

Joshua 13:4 And on the south side are the Hevites, all the land of Chanaan, and Maara of the Sidonians as far as Apheca, and the borders of the Amorrhite,

Joshua 19:30 And Amma and Aphec and Rohob: twenty-two cities, and their villages.

Judges 1:31 Aser also destroyed not the inhabitants of Accho, and of Sidon, of Ahalab, and of Achazib, and of Helba, and of Aphec, and of Rohob:

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1 Samuel 4:1 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight: and Israel went out to war against the Philistines, and camped by the Stone of help. And the Philistines came to Aphec,

1 Samuel 29:1 Now all the troops of the Philistines were gathered together to Aphec: and Israel also encamped by the fountain, which is in Jezrahel.

2 Kings 13:17 And said: Open the window to the east. And when he had opened it, Eliseus said: Shoot an arrow. And he shot. And Eliseus said: The arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of the deliverance from Syria: and thou shalt strike the Syrians in Aphec, till thou consume them.

Context
Ahab Defeats Ben-hadad
23But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is better that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome them. 24Do thou, therefore, this thing: Remove all the kings from thy army, and put captains in their stead:25And make up the number of soldiers that have been slain of thine, and horses, according to the former horses, and chariots, according to the chariots which thou hadst before: and we will fight against them in the plains, and thou shalt see that we shall overcome them. He believed their counsel, and did so.…
Cross References
1 Kings 20:23
But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is better that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome them.

1 Kings 20:25
And make up the number of soldiers that have been slain of thine, and horses, according to the former horses, and chariots, according to the chariots which thou hadst before: and we will fight against them in the plains, and thou shalt see that we shall overcome them. He believed their counsel, and did so.

1 Kings 20:23
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