28 And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Because the Aramites have said, The Lord is the God of the mountains, and not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that [a]I am the Lord.

29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days, and in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Aramites an hundred thousand footmen in one day.

30 But the rest fled to Aphek into the city: and there fell a wall upon seven and twenty thousand men that were left: and Ben-Hadad fled into the city, and came into [b]a secret chamber.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 20:28 Who am of like power in the valley, as I am on the hills, and can as well destroy a multitude with few as with many.
  2. 1 Kings 20:30 Hebrew, from chamber, to chamber.

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