15 And by night he resorted to dividing his forces,+ he and his slaves, against them, and thus he defeated them and kept in pursuit of them up to Hoʹbah, which is north* of Damascus.

15 Jehovah now said to him: “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus;+ and you must come in and anoint+ Hazʹa·el+ as king over Syria.

34 [Ben-haʹdad] now said to him: “The cities+ that my father took from your father I shall return; and streets you will assign to yourself in Damascus the same as my father assigned in Sa·marʹi·a.”

“And as for me, in a covenant+ I shall send you away.”

With that he concluded a covenant with him and sent him away.

8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Reʹzin; and within just sixty-five years Eʹphra·im will be shattered to pieces so as not to be a people.+

2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, in order that he might bring bound to Jerusalem any whom he found who belonged to The Way,*+ both men and women.