Horses and Chariots of Fire

⁸ Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, “At such and such a place shall be my camp.”

⁵ Because Syria, with Ephraim and ^(A)the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, ⁶ “Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it^[a] for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” ⁷ thus says the Lord God:

Ben-hadad's Siege of Samaria

²⁴ Afterward ^(A)Ben-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army and went up and besieged Samaria.

³¹ Now the king of Syria had commanded ^(A)the thirty-two captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.”

³⁴ And Ben-hadad said to him, ^(A)“The cities that my father took from your father I will restore, and you may establish bazaars for yourself in ^(B)Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” And Ahab said, “I will let you go on these terms.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.