Israel Recaptures Cities from Syria

²² And ^(A)Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

¹² And Hazael said, “Why is my lord weeping?”

He answered, “Because I know ^(A)the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: Their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword; and you ^(B)will dash their children, and rip open their women with child.”

³ Then ^(A)the anger of the Lord was aroused against Israel, and He delivered them into the hand of ^(B)Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of ^(C)Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael, all their days. ⁴ So Jehoahaz ^(D)pleaded with the Lord, and the Lord listened to him; for ^(E)He saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them. ^5 (F)Then the Lord gave Israel a deliverer, so that they escaped from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as before. ⁶ Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who had made Israel sin, but walked in them; ^(G)and the ^[a]wooden image also remained in Samaria. ⁷ For He left of the army of Jehoahaz only fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers; for the king of Syria had destroyed them ^(H)and made them ^(I)like the dust at threshing.