1 Kings 20:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.

Their gods

General references

Jeremiah 23:23

Bible References

Their gods

And there came a man of God, and spoke unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus says 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 your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

For they also built them high places, and images, and idol poles, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that struck the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.

Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telasar?

Know you not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their lands out of my hand?

These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself: but I will rebuke you, and set them in order before your eyes.

[A song of ascents.] I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from which comes my help.

I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

General references

Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God afar off?