18 And she went on to say: “Without exception they used to speak in former times, saying, ‘Let them but inquire in Abel, and thus they will certainly end the matter.’

20 Accordingly Ben-haʹdad listened to King Aʹsa and sent the chiefs of the military forces that were his against the cities of Israel and went striking down Iʹjon+ and Dan+ and Aʹbel-beth-maʹa·cah+ and all Chinʹne·reth, as far as all the land of Naphʹta·li.+