¹⁷ But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.

²⁸ And a man of God came up and said to the king of Israel, The Lord says, Because the Aramaeans have said, The Lord is a God of the hills and not of the valleys; I will give all this great army into your hands, and you will see that I am The Lord.