Hadadezer

So she says, "Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy." And so in this place where a severe providence has put her, this little girl is shining her light, and God uses her to save a man and to foreshadow the salvation of the Gentiles.

She tells her mistress about Elisha the prophet, and the mistress tells Naaman, and Naaman tells the king of Syria, we presume Ben Hadad II, and he writes a letter to the king of Israel, we presume Jehoram.

And Naaman marches off to northern Israel with said letter in his hand.

Jehoram nearly has a heart attack when he reads the letter.

2 Samuel, Chapter 8, and verse number 9.

The Bible says, "When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer, then Toi sent to," or sorry, "sent Joram his son unto King David to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi.

And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass: which also King David did dedicate unto the Lord, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued; Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah." And all of those conquests are mentioned earlier up into the chapter.

And, uh, so here's what's taking place now.

We have this king, uh, this individual, the King Toi, T-O-I, Toi, uh, king of Hamath.

But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together, and Hadadizer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates.

they came to Helam with Shobak the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.

And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan and came to Helam.

The Syrians arrayed themselves against David and fought with him.

So they sent messengers and summoned additional Aramean troops from the other side of the Euphrates River.

These troops were under the command of Shobak, the commander of Hadadezer's forces.

Again, remember, this all started because they took his kindness for suspicion, not weakness, but you know what I'm saying, like for battle.

When David heard what had happened, he mobilized all Israel, crossed the Jordan River and positioned his troops in battle formation.

But again, the Arameans fled from the Israelites.

This time, David's forces killed 7,000 charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers, including Shobak, the commander of their army.

When Hadadezer's allies saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they surrendered to David and became his subjects.

After that, the Arameans were no longer willing to help the Ammonites.