20:26 In the spring 1 Ben Hadad mustered the Syrian army 2 and marched to Aphek to fight Israel. 3
20:29 The armies were deployed opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began, and the Israelites killed 100,000 Syrian foot soldiers in one day. 20:30 The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. 4 Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room. 5
1 tn Heb “at the turning of the year.”
2 tn Heb “mustered Aram.”
3 tn Heb “and went up to Aphek for battle with Israel.”
4 tn Heb “and the remaining ones fled to Aphek to the city and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men, the ones who remained.”
5 tn Heb “and Ben Hadad fled and went into the city, [into] an inner room in an inner room.”