11:020:016 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad
was drinking himself
drunk
in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and
two
kings
that helped him.
11:020:017 And the young men of the princes of the
provinces went out
first;
and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There
are
men come out of Samaria.
11:020:018 And he said, Whether they be come out for
peace, take them
alive;
or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
11:020:019 So these young men of the princes of the
provinces came out of
the
city, and the army which followed them.
11:020:020 And they slew every one his man: and
the Syrians fled; and
Israel
pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped
on
an
horse with the horsemen.
11:020:021 And the king of Israel went out, and smote
the horses and
chariots,
and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
11:020:022 And the prophet came to the king of Israel,
and said unto him,
Go,
strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest:
for
at
the return of the year the king of Syria will come
up
against
thee.
11:020:023 And the servants of the king of Syria said
unto him, Their
gods
are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger
than
we;
but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely
we
shall
be stronger than they.
11:020:024 And do this thing, Take the kings away,
every man out of his
place,
and put captains in their rooms:
11:020:025 And number thee an army, like the army
that thou hast lost,
horse
for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will
fight
against
them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger
than
they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did
so.
11:020:026 And it came to pass at the return of the
year, that Benhadad
numbered
the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against
Israel.
11:020:027 And the children of Israel were numbered,
and were all
present,
and went against them: and the children of Israel
pitched
before them like two little flocks of kids; but the
Syrians
filled the country.
11:020:028 And there came a man of God, and spake
unto the king of
Israel,
and said, Thus saith the lord, Because the Syrians
have
said, The lord is God of the hills, but he is
not God of
the
valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude
into
thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the lord.
11:020:029 And they pitched one over against the other
seven days. And so
it
was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined:
and the
children
of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand
footmen
in one day.


