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20:17. And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out first.
And Benadad sent. And they told him, saying: There are men come out of
Samaria.
20:18. And he said: Whether they come for peace, take them alive: or
whether they come to fight, take them alive.
20:19. So the servants of the princes of the provinces went out, and the
rest of the army followed:
20:20. And every one slew the man that came against him: and the Syrians
fled, and Israel pursued after them. And Benadad, king of Syria, fled
away on horseback with his horsemen.
20:21. But the king of Israel going out overthrew the horses and
chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
20:22. (And a prophet coming to the king of Israel, said to him: Go, and
strengthen thyself, and know, and see what thou dost: for the next year
the king of Syria will come up against thee.)
20:23. But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are
gods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is better
that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome
them.
20:24. Do thou, therefore, this thing: Remove all the kings from thy
army, and put captains in their stead:
20:25. And make up the number of soldiers that have been slain of thine,
and horses, according to the former horses, and chariots, according to
the chariots which thou hadst before: and we will fight against them in
the plains, and thou shalt see that we shall overcome them. He believed
their counsel, and did so.
20:26. Wherefore, at the return of the year, Benadad mustered the
Syrians, and went up to Aphec, to fight against Israel.
20:27. And the children of Israel were mustered, and taking victuals,
went out on the other side, and encamped over against them, like two
little flocks of goats: but the Syrians filled the land.
20:28. (And a man of God coming, said to the king of Israel: Thus saith
the Lord: Because the Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills,
but is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude
into thy hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.)
20:29. And both sides set their armies in array one against the other
seven days, and on the seventh day the battle was fought: and the
children of Israel slew, of the Syrians, a hundred thousand footmen in
one day.
20:30. And they that remained fled to Aphec, into the city: and the wall
fell upon seven and twenty thousand men, that were left. And Benadad
fleeing, went into the city, into a chamber that was within a chamber.
20:31. And his servants said to him: Behold, we have heard that the
kings of the house of Israel are merciful; so let us put sackcloths on
our loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel:
perhaps he will save our lives.
20:32. So they girded sackcloths on their loins, and put ropes on their
heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said to him: Thy servant,
Benadad, saith: I beseech thee let me have my life. And he said: If he
be yet alive, he is my brother.
20:33. The men took this for good luck: and in haste caught the word out
of his mouth, and said: Thy brother Benadad. And he said to them: Go,
and bring him to me. Then Benadad came out to him, and he lifted him up
into his chariot.
20:34. And he said to him: The cities which my father took from thy
father, I will restore: and do thou make thee streets in Damascus, as my
father made in Samaria and having made a league, I will depart from
thee. So he made a league with him, and let him go.
20:35. Then a certain man of the sons of the prophets, said to his
companion, in the word of the Lord: Strike me. But he would not strike.
20:36. Then he said to him: Because thou wouldst not hearken to the word
of the Lord, behold thou shalt depart from me, and a lion shall slay
thee. And when he was gone a little from him, a lion found him, and
slew him.
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