And the servants of the king of Aram 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 — Ben-hadad's advisors attribute their defeat to Israel's gods being mountain deities. The phrase shows their theological misunderstanding: they believe regional deities have limited jurisdiction. If they fight in plains, they hypothesize, they will prevail.

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