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 to 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 thy hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

For they also built for themselves high places, and images and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.

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

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

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

A Song of degrees. I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence cometh 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, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off.