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|1 Reyes 20:21|
The king of Israel advanced and overpowered the horses and chariots and inflicted heavy losses on the Arameans.
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|1 Reyes 20:22|
Afterwards, the prophet came to the king of Israel and said, “Strengthen your position and see what must be done, because next spring the king of Aram will attack you again.”
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|1 Reyes 20:23|
Meanwhile, the officials of the king of Aram advised him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they were too strong for us. But if we fight them on the plains, surely we will be stronger than they.
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|1 Reyes 20:24|
Do this: Remove all the kings from their commands and replace them with other officers.
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|1 Reyes 20:25|
You must also raise an army like the one you lost — horse for horse and chariot for chariot — so we can fight Israel on the plains. Then surely we will be stronger than they.” He agreed with them and acted accordingly.
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|1 Reyes 20:26|
The next spring Ben-Hadad mustered the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
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|1 Reyes 20:27|
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.
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|1 Reyes 20:28|
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.’“
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|1 Reyes 20:29|
For seven days they camped opposite each other, and on the seventh day the battle was joined. The Israelites inflicted a hundred thousand casualties on the Aramean foot soldiers in one day.
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|1 Reyes 20:30|
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.
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