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1 KINGS 20:18

And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive. ...

1 KINGS 20:19

So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them. ...

1 KINGS 20:20

And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen. ...

1 KINGS 20:21

And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter. ...

1 KINGS 20:22

# 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. ...

1 KINGS 20:23

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. ...

1 KINGS 20:24

And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms: ...

1 KINGS 20:25

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. ...

1 KINGS 20:26

And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. ...

1 KINGS 20:27

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. ...

1 KINGS 20:28

# 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. ...

1 KINGS 20:29

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. ...