Verse 30
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city ,.... Which perhaps was in the hands of the Syrians, and was designed for a retreat for them, should they be beaten:
and there a wall fell upon twenty seven thousand of the men that were left ; not slain in the battle; here again the Lord might be seen, who, as Abarbinel observes, fought from heaven, and either by a violent wind, or an earthquake, threw down the wall upon them just as they had got under it for shelter:
and Benhadad fled, and came into the city into an inner chamber ; or, "into a chamber within a chamber" F17 חדר בחדר "cubiculo in cubiculum", Pagninus, Montanus. , for greater secrecy.
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