--- title: "Another War with Ben-hadad" description: "In the spring, Ben-hadad mobilized the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight..." image: "" book: "1 Kings" bookId: "1KI" testament: "old" startChapter: 20 startVerse: 26 endChapter: 20 endVerse: 30 coversChapters: [20] aiTitle: "Another War with Ben-hadad" aiDescription: "In the spring, Ben-hadad mobilized the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight..." hasAiStory: true location: "Aphek" persons: ["Arameans","Ben-hadad","God","Israelites","Man of God"] hashtags: ["deliverance","judgment","war"] genre: "history" readingTime: 1 type: "adaptive" slug: "1KI/another-war-with-ben-hadad" canonicalId: "1KI.20.26-20.30" chronologicalOrder: 840 relatedSlugs: [] prevSlug: "1KI/ahab-defeats-ben-hadad" nextSlug: "1KI/ahab-spares-ben-hadad" --- In the spring, [Ben-hadad](/persons/ben-hadad) mobilized the [Arameans](/persons/arameans) and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel. The [Israelites](/persons/israelites) also mobilized, gathered supplies, and marched out to meet them.
The Israelites camped before them like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside. Then the [man of God](/persons/man%20of%20god) approached the king of Israel and said, “This is what the [LORD](/persons/god) says: ‘Because the Arameans think the LORD is a god of the hills and not of the valleys, I will deliver all this great army into your hand. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’” For seven days the armies camped opposite each other, and on the seventh day the battle ensued, and the Israelites struck down the Arameans—a hundred thousand foot soldiers in one day. The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.

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