Parallel Translations
Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 色 列 人 与 亚 兰 人 相 对 安 营 七 日 ， 到 第 七 日 两 军 交 战 ； 那 一 日 以 色 列 人 杀 了 亚 兰 人 步 兵 十 万 ，
Contextual Overview
22 Then the prophet went to Ahab king of Israel and said, "The king of Aram will attack you again next spring. So go home now and strengthen your army and see what you need to do." 23 Meanwhile the officers of Ben-Hadad king of Aram said to him, "The gods of Israel are mountain gods. Since we fought in a mountain area, Israel won. Let's fight them on the flat land, and then we will win. 24 This is what you should do. Don't allow the thirty-two rulers to command the armies, but put other commanders in their places. 25 Gather an army like the one that was destroyed and as many horses and chariots as before. We will fight the Israelites on flat land, and then we will win." Ben-Hadad agreed with their advice and did what they said. 26 The next spring Ben-Hadad gathered the army of Aram and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel. 27 The Israelites also had prepared for war. They marched out to meet the Arameans and camped opposite them. The Israelites looked like two small flocks of goats, but the Arameans covered the area. 28 A man of God came to the king of Israel with this message: "The Lord says, ‘The people of Aram say that I, the Lord , am a god of the mountains, not a god of the valleys. So I will allow you to defeat this huge army, and then you will know I am the Lord .'" 29 The armies were camped across from each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began. The Israelites killed one hundred thousand Aramean soldiers in one day. 30 The rest of them ran away to the city of Aphek, where a city wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of them. Ben-Hadad also ran away to the city and hid in a room.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
seven days: Joshua 6:15, 1 Samuel 17:16, Psalms 10:16
an hundred thousand: 2 Samuel 10:18, 2 Chronicles 13:17, 2 Chronicles 20:23-25, 2 Chronicles 28:6, Isaiah 37:36
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 30:17 - and there Isaiah 24:18 - he who fleeth Amos 5:19 - As if
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And they pitched one over against the other seven days,.... Very probably the Israelites pitched upon an hill, and the Syrians waited till they changed their position, not caring to fall upon them, though so very supernumerary to them, for the reason before given:
and so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; or they that made war drew nigh, as the Targum, and both sides engaged in battle:
and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians 100,000 footmen in one day; which was a prodigious slaughter to be made by so small an army; the hand of the Lord was visible in it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 29. Slew a hundred thousand footmen in one day. — This number is enormous; but the MSS. and versions give no various reading.
