Omri along with all Israel marched up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

Now King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled all his army, along with thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria and besieged and attacked it.

They marched out at noon, while Ben Hadad and the thirty-two kings allied with him were drinking heavily in their quarters.

The young men of the provincial leaders marched out first. Then Ben-hadad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, saying, “Men are marching out of Samaria.”

So he said, “If they have marched out in peace, take them alive, and if they have marched out for battle, take them alive.”

They marched out of the city with the servants of the district governors in the lead and the army behind them.

Then the king of Israel marched out and struck down the horses and chariots; he thoroughly defeated Syria.

In the spring Ben Hadad mustered the Syrian army and marched to Aphek to fight Israel.

When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.

As the king was passing by, he cried out to the king and said, “Your servant marched out into the middle of the battle. Suddenly, a man turned aside and brought someone to me and said, ‘Guard this man! If he is ever missing, it will be your life in place of his life, or you will weigh out 75 pounds of silver.’