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“I think we should sign a peace treaty, just as our fathers did. This silver and gold is a present for you. Would you please break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel and force him to leave my country?”

Benhadad did what Asa asked and sent the Syrian army into Israel. They captured the towns of Ijon, Dan, Abel-Maim,[a] and all the towns in Naphtali where supplies were kept. When Baasha heard about it, he stopped his work on the town of Ramah.

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Footnotes

  1. 16.4 Abel-Maim: Also called “Abel-Bethmaacah” (see 1 Kings 15.20).

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