Horses and Chariots of Fire

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.”

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10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
    speak a word, (A)but it will not stand,
    for God (B)is with us.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:10 The Hebrew for God is with us is Immanuel

Because Syria, with Ephraim and (A)the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, “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,” thus says the Lord God:

(B)“‘It shall not stand,
    and it shall not come to pass.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 7:6 Hebrew let us split it open

30 (A)No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
    can avail against the Lord.

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18 (A)Plans are established by counsel;
    by (B)wise guidance (C)wage war.

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12 He (A)frustrates the devices of the crafty,
    so that their hands achieve no success.
13 He (B)catches the wise in their own craftiness,
    and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

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Ben-hadad's Siege of Samaria

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

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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.”

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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.

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23 And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills, and so they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.

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Ahab's Wars with Syria

20 (A)Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together. (B)Thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. And he went up and closed in on (C)Samaria and fought against it.

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