²⁰ and each one struck down his opponent.^(A) So the Arameans fled and Israel pursued them,^(B) but King Ben-hadad of Aram escaped on a horse with the cavalry. ²¹ Then the king of Israel marched out and attacked the cavalry and the chariots. He inflicted a severe slaughter on Aram.

²² The prophet approached the king of Israel and said to him, “Go and strengthen yourself, then consider carefully^[a] what you should do, for in the spring^(C) the king of Aram will attack you.”

²⁰ “Then^(A) a spirit came forward, stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will entice him.’

“The Lord asked him, ‘How?’