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And ,
behold ,
a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel ,
and said ,
Thus says LORD ,
Have thou seen all this great multitude ?
Behold ,
I will deliver it into thy hand this day ,
and thou shall know that I am LORD .
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And Ahab said ,
By whom ?
And he said ,
Thus says LORD ,
By the young men of the rulers of the provinces .
Then he said ,
Who shall begin the battle ?
And he answered ,
Thou .
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Then he mustered the young men of the rulers of the provinces ,
and they were two hundred and thirty-two .
And after them he mustered all the people ,
even all the sons of Israel ,
being seven thousand .
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And they went out at noon .
But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions ,
he and the kings ,
the thirty-two kings who helped him .
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And the young men of the rulers of the provinces went out first .
And Ben-hadad sent out ,
and they told him ,
saying ,
There are men come out from Samaria .
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And he said ,
Whether they come out for peace ,
take them alive ,
or whether they come out for war ,
taken them alive .
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So these went out of the city ,
the young men of the rulers of the provinces ,
and the army which followed them .
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And they killed everyone his man .
And the Syrians fled ,
and Israel pursued them .
And Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen .
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And the king of Israel went out ,
and smote the horses and chariots ,
and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter .
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And the prophet came near to the king of Israel ,
and said to him ,
Go ,
strengthen thyself .
And mark ,
and see what thou do ,
for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee .
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And the servants of the king of Syria said to him ,
Their god is a god 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 .
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And do this thing :
Take the kings away ,
every man out of his place ,
and put captains in their place .
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And number thee an army ,
like the army that thou have 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 to their voice ,
and did
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And it came to pass at the return of the year ,
that Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians ,
and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel .
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And the sons of Israel were mustered ,
and were supported ,
and went against them .
And the sons of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids ,
but the Syrians filled the country .
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And a man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel ,
and said ,
Thus says LORD ,
Because the Syrians have said ,
LORD is a god of the hills ,
but he is not a god of the valleys ,
therefore I will deliver all this great multitude
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And they encamped one opposite the other seven days .
And so it was ,
that in the seventh day the battle was joined .
And the sons of Israel killed of the Syrians a hundred thousand footmen in one day .
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But the rest fled to Aphek ,
into the city ,
and the wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men who were left .
And Ben-hadad fled ,
and came into the city ,
into an inner chamber .
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And his servants said to him ,
Behold now ,
we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings .
Let us ,
we pray thee ,
put sackcloth on our loins ,
and ropes upon our heads ,
and go out to the king of Israel .
Perhaps
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So they girded sackcloth on their loins ,
and [
put ]
ropes on their heads ,
and came to the king of Israel ,
and said ,
Thy servant Ben-hadad says ,
I pray thee ,
let me live .
And he said ,
Is he yet alive ?
He is my brother .
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Now the men observed diligently whether anything would come from him .
And they quickly caught it ,
and they said ,
Thy brother Ben-hadad .
Then he said ,
Go ye ,
bring him .
Then Ben-hadad came forth to him ,
and he caused him to come up
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And [
Ben-hadad ]
said to him ,
The cities which my father took from thy father I will restore ,
and thou shall make streets for thee in Damascus as my father made in Samaria .
And I , [
said Ahab ],
will let thee go with this covenant .
So