13And behold, a certain prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and said, "Thus says the LORD: Have you seen this great multitude? Behold, I am giving it into your hand today, and you shall know that I am the LORD."14And Ahab said, "By whom?" And he said, "Thus says the LORD: By the servants of the chiefs of the provinces." And he said, "Who will bind the warfare?" And he said, "You."15He mustered the young men of the provincial rulers, and there were two hundred and thirty. After them he mustered all the people, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand.16And they went out at noon. Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in Succoth—he and the kings, thirty-two kings, the helper with him.17And the young men of the provincial leaders went out first. Ben-hadad sent men, and they told him, saying, "Men have gone out from Samaria."18And he said, "If they come out for peace, take them alive; if they come out for war, take them alive."19And these went out from the city, the young men of the captains of the provinces, and the army that followed them.20And they struck down man by man, and the Arameans fled. Israel pursued them, and Ben-hadad king of Aram escaped on a horse with horsemen.21The king of Israel went out and struck the horses and the chariots and struck Aram a great strike.22And the prophet came near to the king of Israel and said to him, "Go, strengthen yourself, and know and see what you will do, for at the turning of the year the king of Aram will come up against you."23And the servants of the king of Aram said to him, "Their gods are gods of the hills; that is why they were stronger than us. But let us fight against them on the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they."24And do this word: Remove the kings, man from his place, and place governors under them.25And you, number for yourself power like the power of the fallen from you, and horse like horse, and chariot like chariot, and fight them in the plain. If not we strengthen from them. And he heard their voice and did so.26It was at the return of the year, and Ben-Hadad mustered Aram and went up to Aphekah for warfare with Israel.27The sons of Israel were mustered and provisioned and went to meet them, and the sons of Israel encamped opposite them like two little flocks of goats, while Aram filled the earth.28And a man of God approached and said to the king of Israel, "Thus says the LORD: Because the Arameans have said, 'The LORD is the God of the mountains, but he is not the God of the valleys'—I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD."29They encamped, these opposite these, seven days. And on the seventh day the battle drew near, and the sons of Israel struck down the Arameans, a hundred thousand foot soldiers, in one day.30And the survivors fled to Aphek, into the city, and the wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand of the surviving men. Ben-hadad fled and came into the city, into an inner room, chamber by chamber.31And his servants said to him, "Look, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are kings of covenant loyalty. Let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads, and let us go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life."32They girded sackcloths on their loins and ropes on their heads, and they came to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad says, 'Please let me live!'" He said, "Is he still alive? My brother he is."33The men divined his intentions and hurried and loosed him and said, "Your brother, Ben-Hadad." And he said, "Come, take him." And Ben-Hadad went out to him, and he brought him up on the chariot.34He said to him, "The cities that my father took from your father I will return, and you shall set streets for yourself in Damascus just as my father set in Shimron, and I will send you away in covenant." And he cut a covenant for him and sent him away.