³¹ “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? ³² If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace.

⁴ But they were terrified and said, “If two kings could not resist him, how can we?”

¹¹ The king of Israel answered, “Tell him: ‘One who puts on his armor should not boast^(A) like one who takes it off.’”