1 Kings 20:5

And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although [Heb. כִי . According to some of the grammarians, this is merely the Hebrew equivalent of the ὅτι recitantis . But the כִי אִם of the next verse suggests that there must be a connexion between the two, and that the second emphasizes the first, much as in the A.V.] I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children [Our translators have often sacrificed force to elegance by disregarding the order of the Hebrew, which here, e . g ; is " Thy silver and thy gold … to me thou shalt give them ."]