Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
Ver. 9. But this thing I may not do.] He saith not, This thing I will not do, which plainly discovereth his dastardliness and pusillanimity. cowardliness He had not "the spirit of power," because not "of a sound mind." 2Ti 1:7