The next spring Ben-Hadad mustered the Arameans
and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
When the Israelites
were also mustered and given provisions,
they marched out to meet them.
The Israelites camped opposite them
like two small flocks of goats,
while the Arameans covered the countryside.
The man of God came up and told the king of Israel,
"This is what the Lord says:
'Because the Arameans think the Lord
is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys,
I will deliver this vast army into your hands,
and you will know that I am the Lord.'"
For seven days they camped opposite each other,
and on the seventh day the battle was joined.
The Israelites inflicted a hundred thousand casualites
on the Amamean foot soldiers in one day.
The rest of them escaped to the city of Aphek,
where the wall collapsed
on twenty-seven thousand of them.
And Ben-Hadad fled to the city
and hid in an inner room.
(II Kings 20:26-28)
Monday, September 04, 2017
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