529. Ahab's Victory over Ben-Hadad ⏤ 1 Kings 20:13-22

529.


Ahab's Victory over Ben-Hadad

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Today's Passage: 1 Kings 20:13-22

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23rd Strategy.
God uses characters and jobs to prepare our hearts for truth.

• Ask God to open your heart.
• Thank God for writing this story to teach you.
• Ask him to help you hear what He wants you to learn.
• Think about the story line (plot).
• Are there details being explained? Names being used?
• Take a moment to think about the activity in the story.
• Why is God revealing these details? Are they helpful?
• Thank God for questions to ask yourself.
• Thank God for answers when they come.
  

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13. Then a certain prophet came to see King Ahab of Israel and told him, "This is what the LORD says: Do you see all these enemy forces? Today I will hand them all over to you. Then you will know that I am the LORD."

14. Ahab asked, "How will he do it?"
And the prophet replied, "This is what the LORD says: The troops of the provincial commanders will do it."
"Should we attack first?" Ahab asked.
"Yes," the prophet answered.

15. So Ahab mustered the troops of the 232 provincial commanders. Then he called out the rest of the army of Israel, some 7,000 men .
16. About noontime, as Ben-hadad and the thirty-two allied kings were still in their tents drinking themselves into a stupor,
17. the troops of the provincial commanders marched out to the city as the first contingent.

As they approached, Ben-hadad's scouts reported to him, "Some troops are coming from Samaria."
18. "Take them alive," Ben-hadad commanded, "Whatever they have come for peace or for war."

19. But Ahab's provincial commanders and the entire army had now come out to fight.
20. Each Israelite soldier killed his Aramean opponent, and suddenly the entire Aramean army panicked and fled. The Israelites chased them, but King Ben-hadad and a few of his Charioteer escaped on horses.
21. However, the king of Israel destroyed the other horses and chariots and slaughtered the Arameans.

22. Afterward the prophet said to king Ahab, 'Get ready for another attack. Begin making plans now, for the king of Aram will come back next spring."
1 Kings 20:13-22 NLT

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