Some time later King Benhadad of Syria led his entire army against Israel and laid siege to the city of Samaria.

King Benhadad of Syria gathered all his troops, and supported by thirty-two other rulers with their horses and chariots, he marched up, laid siege to Samaria, and launched attacks against it.

Benhadad said to him, "I will restore to you the towns my father took from your father, and you may set up a commercial center for yourself in Damascus, just as my father did in Samaria." Ahab replied, "On these terms, then, I will set you free." He made a treaty with him and let him go.

The king of Syria had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders to attack no one else except the king of Israel.

King Benhadad's officials said to him, "The gods of Israel are mountain gods, and that is why the Israelites defeated us. But we will certainly defeat them if we fight them in the plains.

He upsets the plans of cunning people, and traps the wise in their own schemes, so that nothing they do succeeds;

(SEE 5:12)

Get good advice and you will succeed; don't go charging into battle without a plan.

Human wisdom, brilliance, insight---they are of no help if the LORD is against you.

Syria, together with Israel and its king, has made a plot.

"But I, the LORD, declare that this will never happen.

Make your plans! But they will never succeed. Talk all you want to! But it is all useless, because God is with us.