1 Kings 20:33
Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
The verse belongs to the history of the two separate kingdoms of Judah and Israel for about eighty years, from the revolt of the ten tribes to the death of Jehoshaphat, comprising the histories of the reigns of several kings of both Judah and Israel. It stands in the account of the defeat of Ben-hadad, the Syrian king, by Israel. It records Ben-hadad surrendering to Ahab after Israel's victory over Syria, with Ahab having him brought and received into his chariot. God gave Ahab that victory over Ben-hadad and the Syrians as another effort to win the weak Ahab, so that Ahab knew the victory came from Jehovah. Ahab's sparing of Ben-hadad was counterfeit compassion, an apparent virtue that is not truly right when it is not grounded in God's word. After this divinely given victory, greater disobedience by Ahab followed.