Ben-Haddad's Message to the King of Israel

A prophet told Ahab, king of Israel, that the Syrians would come up against him in the spring. When Ben-Haddad heard this message as he was drinking with the kings in the booths, he said to his men, Take your positions, and they took their positions against the city. The sons of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, but the Syrians filled the country. But after a battle on the seventh day,. the sons of Israel struck a hundred thousand Syrian foot soldiers in one day, and the rest fled intoThe wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men that were left. And so these went out of the city, the servants of the