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Now Benhadad, when he had saved himself, and as much of his army
as he could, out of the battle, he consulted with his friends how he might
make another expedition against the Israelites. Now those friends advised
him not to fight with them on the hills, because their God was potent in
such places, and thence it had come to pass that they had very lately been
beaten; but they said, that if they joined battle with them in the plain,
they should beat them. They also gave him this further advice, to send
home those kings whom he had brought as his auxiliaries, but to retain
their army, and to set captains over it instead of the kings, and to raise
an army out of their country, and let them be in the place of the former
who perished in the battle, together with horses and chariots. So he judged
their counsel to be good, and acted according to it in the management of
the army.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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