26. In the spring, Benhadad got his army together, and they marched to the town of Aphek to attack Israel.
27. The Israelites also prepared to fight. They marched out to meet the Syrians, and the two armies camped facing each other. The Syrians covered the whole area, but the Israelites looked like two little flocks of goats.
28. The prophet went to Ahab and said, “The Syrians think the Lord is a god of the hills and not of the valleys. So he has promised to help you defeat their powerful army. Then you will know that the Lord is in control.”
29. For seven days the two armies stayed in their camps, facing each other. Then on the seventh day the fighting broke out, and before sunset the Israelites had killed one hundred thousand Syrian troops.
30. The rest of the Syrian army ran back to Aphek, but the town wall fell and crushed twenty-seven thousand of them.Benhadad also escaped to Aphek and hid in the back room of a house.