²⁹ They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty.^[a] They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites^(A) and of the Arameans.

⁶ for the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound^(A) of chariots and horses and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired^(B) the Hittite^(C) and Egyptian kings to attack us!” ⁷ So they got up and fled^(D) in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.

⁴ Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon,^(A) and from the great river, the Euphrates^(B)—all the Hittite^(C) country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.^(D)

1 A prophecy:^(A) The word^(B) of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.^[a]