AHAB AND

BEN-HADAD
1 KINGS 20
 MWA HA HA HA

This is Ben-Hadad, King of Syria.

He had gathered a large army
accompanied by 32 kings ready to
attack the city of Samaria in Israel.
 Dear Ahab,
Just want to tell you
that soon everything
you owned would
become my property.

Sincerely yours,
Ben-Hadad
 NO WORRIES, GOD SAID:
Today I will hand them all over to you.
Then you will know that I am the Lord.
SEND Your young men lead by the provincial
officers, AND You should TAKE INITIATIVE
TO start the battle
 DAMN... I LOST.
GOT TO TRY AGAIN
NEXT YEAR
 THEN BEN-HADAD GATHERED
ANOTHER ARMY AND MARCHED
TO FIGHT KING AHAB WITH THE
NEW TACTIC
THEIRS IS GOD OF HILLS.
WE WILL FIGHT AGAINST
THEM ON THE PLAINS.
WE WILL BEAT THEM!
WHAT DO YOU THINK
ABOUT BEN-HADAD
THOUGHT OF GOD?
 the Israelite army looked like two little
flocks of goats in comparison to the vast
Aramean forces that filled the countryside!

Then the man of God went to AHAB and said,

“This is what the Lord says: The Arameans have
said, ‘The Lord is a god of the hills and not of
the plains.’ So I will defeat this vast army for
you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”
King Ahab’s army inflicted 100,000
casualties on the Syrian foot
soldiers in one day. The rest of
Ben-Hadad’s army escaped to the
city of Aphek, where the wall
collapsed on 27,000 of them.
WHY GOD HELPED AHAB
TO FIGHT BEN-HADAD?
BUT, WHAT DID
AHAB DO?
 ERR... SORRY AHAB AHHH... MY BROTHER BEN-HADAD
PLEASE SPARE MY LIFE DON'T MENTION IT LAH... MAKE A
TREATY THEN I WILL LET YOU GO
WHY DO YOU THINK
AHAB RELEASED
BEN-HADAD ?
God told you to destroy Ben-Hadad but you let him go.
Therefore God will destroy you.
LATER, AHAB WOULD
REGRET FOR WHAT
DID HE DO !
"Love the LORD your God and keep
his requirements, his decrees, his
laws and his commands always."

DEUTERONOMY 11:1
 LORD, HELP US TO BE
FOCUS TO YOU AND GIVE US
WISDOM TO UNDERSTAND
AND TO OBEY YOUR WILL