1st Kings 20:21
Young's Literal Translation
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18 And he saith, `If for peace they have come out -- catch them alive; and if for battle they have come out -- alive catch them.`
19 And these have gone out of the city -- the young men of the heads of the provinces -- and the force that [is] after them,
20 and smite each his man, and Aram fleeth, and Israel pursueth them, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram escapeth on a horse, and the horsemen;
21 and the king of Israel goeth out, and smiteth the horses, and the charioteers, and hath smitten among the Aramaeans a great smiting.
22 And the prophet cometh nigh unto the king of Israel, and saith to him, `Go, strengthen thyself, and know and see that which thou dost, for at the turn of the year the king of Aram is coming up against thee.`
23 And the servants of the king of Aram said unto him, `Gods of hills [are] their gods, therefore they were stronger than we; and yet, we fight with them in the plain -- are we not stronger than they?
24 `And this thing do thou: turn aside the kings each out of his place, and set captains in their stead;