25 Raise another army for yourself like the army you lost—horse for horse, chariot for chariot—and let’s fight with them on the plain; and we will certainly be stronger than they are.” The king listened to them and did it.

26 In the spring, Ben-hadad mobilized the Arameans and went up to Aphekk to battle Israel. 27 The Israelites mobilized, gathered supplies, and went to fight them. The Israelites camped in front of them like two little flocks of goats, while the Arameans filled the landscape.l

28 Then the man of Godm approached and said to the king of Israel, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because the Arameans have said, “The Lord is a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys,”n I will hand over all this whole huge army to you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’ ”o

29 They camped opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day,p the battle took place, and the Israelites struck down the Arameans—one hundred thousand foot soldiers in one day.