RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

21 And he returned back to him, and took a yoke of oxen,
and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the
instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they
did eat. Then he arose, and went after Eliyahu, and
became his eved.
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And Ben-Hadad the melech of Aram gathered all his
army together: and there were thirty-two other melechim
with him, and horses, and mirkavot: and he went up and
besieged Shomron, and warred against it.
2 And he sent messengers to Achav melech of Yisrael
into the city, and said to him, This says Ben-Hadad,
3 Your silver and your gold is mine; your wives also and
your children, even the best of all, are mine.
4 And the melech of Yisrael answered and said, My
master, O melech, according to your saying, I am yours,
and all that I have.
5 And the messengers came again, and said, This speaks
Ben-Hadad, saying, Although I have sent to you, saying,
You shall deliver to me your silver, and your gold, and
your wives, and your children;
6 Yet I will send my avadim to you tomorrow about this
time, and they shall search your bayit, and the houses of
your avadim; and it shall be, that whatever is valued in
your eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.
7 Then the melech of Yisrael called all the zechanim of
the land, and said, Please know, and see how this man
seeks mischief: for he sent to me for my wives, and for
my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I did
not refuse.
8 And all the zechanim and all the people said to him,
Listen not to him, nor consent.
9 So he said to the messengers of Ben-Hadad, Tell my
master the melech, All that you did send for to your eved
the first time I will do: but this thing I may not do. And
the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
10 And Ben-Hadad sent to him, and said, The elohim do
so to me, and more also, if the dust of Shomron shall be
enough as handfuls for all the people that follow me.
11 And the melech of Yisrael answered and said, Tell
him, Let not him that puts on his armor boast like one that
puts it off.
12 And it came to pass, when Ben-Hadad heard this
message, as he was drinking, along with the melechim in
booths, that he said to his avadim, Set yourselves in array.
And they set themselves in array against the city.
13 And, see, there came a navi to Achav melech of
Yisrael, saying, This says vuvh, Have you seen all this
great multitude? See, I will deliver it in to your hand this
day; and you shall know that I am vuvh.
14 And Achav said, By whom? And he said, This says
vuvh, Even by the young men of the rulers of the
provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And
he answered, You.
15 Then he numbered the young men of the rulers of the
provinces, and they were two hundred thirty two: and
after them he numbered all the people, even all the
children of Yisrael, being seven thousand.
16 And they went out at noon. But Ben-Hadad was
drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the
melechim, the thirty-two melechim that helped him.
17 And the young men of the rulers of the provinces went
out first; and Ben-Hadad sent out, and they told him,
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saying, There are men coming out of Shomron.
18 And he said, If they come out for shalom, take them
alive; or if they come out for war, take them alive.
19 So these young men of the rulers of the provinces
came out of the city, and the army that followed them.
20 And they killed every one his man: and the Arameans
fled; and Yisrael pursued them: and Ben-Hadad the
melech of Aram escaped on a horse with the horsemen.
21 And the melech of Yisrael went out, and smote the
horses and mirkavot, and killed the Arameans with a great
slaughter.
22 And the navi came to the melech of Yisrael, and said
to him, Go, strengthen yourself, and know, and see what
you do: for at the turn of the year the melech of Aram will
come up against you again.
23 And the avadim of the melech of Aram said to him,
Their elohim are elohim of the hills; therefore they were
stronger than us; but let us fight against them in the plain,
and surely we shall be stronger than them.
24 And do this thing, Take the melechim away, every
man out of his place, and put officers in their places:
25 And number an army, like the army that you have lost,
horse for horse, and mirkavah for mirkavah: and we will
fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be
stronger than them. And he listened to their voice, and did
so.
26 And it came to pass at the turn of the year, that Ben-
Hadad numbered the Arameans, and went up to Aphek, to
fight against Yisrael.
27 And the children of Yisrael were numbered, and were
all present, and went against them: and the children of
Yisrael camped before them like two little flocks of goats;
but the Arameans filled the country.
28 And there came a man of Elohim, and spoke to the
melech of Yisrael, and said, This says vuvh, Because the
Arameans have said, vuvh is Elohim of the hills, but He is
not Elohim of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this
great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I
am vuvh.
29 And they camped opposite each other seven days. And
so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was started:
and the children of Yisrael killed of the Arameans a
hundred thousand footmen in one day.
30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city, and there a
wall fell upon twenty seven thousand of the men that
were left. And Ben-Hadad fled, and came into the city,
into an inner bedroom.
31 And his avadim said to him, See now, we have heard
that the melechim of Beit Yisrael are merciful melechim:
let us, I ask you, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes
upon our heads, and go out to the melech of Yisrael:
perhaps he will save your chayim.
32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes
around their heads, and came to the melech of Yisrael,
and said, Your eved Ben-Hadad says, I beg you, let me
live. And he said, Is he yet alive? He is my brother. 973
33 Now the men did diligently observe whether anything
would come from him, and quickly grasped it: and they
said, Your brother Ben-Hadad. Then he said, Go, bring
him. Then Ben-Hadad came out to him; and caused him
to come up into the mirkavah.
34 And Ben-Hadad said to him, The cities, which my
abba took from your abba, I will restore; and you shall