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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; A herd of goats was seldom very large, and the whole of the Israelites put together seemed only “like two little flocks of kids;” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the Syrians filled the country. And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. See how good came...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day. But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother. When a man leaves his God, he cannot distinguish between his foes and his friends; so that, oftentimes, those who would do him the direst mischief he reckons to be his brothers.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot. And Benhadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and...