1 Kings 20:27
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And the children of Israel were mustered, and taking victuals, went out on the other side, and encamped over against them, like two little flocks of goats: but the Syrians filled the land.

seven days

Joshua 6:15 But the seventh day, rising up early, they went about the city, as it was ordered, seven times.

1 Samuel 17:16 Now the Philistine came out morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

Psalm 10:16 The Lord shall reign to eternity, yea, for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish from his land.

an hundred thousand

2 Samuel 10:18 And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David slew of the Syrians the men of seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen: and smote Sobach the captain of the army, who presently died.

2 Chronicles 13:17 And Abia and his people slew them with a great slaughter, and there fell wounded of Israel five hundred thousand valiant men.

2 Chronicles 20:23-25 For the children of Ammon, and of Moab, rose up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of them, they turned also against one another, and destroyed one another. . . .

2 Chronicles 28:6 For Phacee the son of Romelia slew of Juda a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers.

Isaiah 37:36 And the angel of the Lord went out and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose in the morning, and behold they were all dead corpses.

Context
Another War with Ben-hadad
26Wherefore, at the return of the year, Benadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphec, to fight against Israel. 27And the children of Israel were mustered, and taking victuals, went out on the other side, and encamped over against them, like two little flocks of goats: but the Syrians filled the land.28(And a man of God coming, said to the king of Israel: Thus saith the Lord: Because the Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills, but is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.)…
Cross References
Judges 6:3
And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations, came up:

1 Samuel 13:5
The Philistines also were assembled to fight against Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and a multitude of people besides, like the sand on the seashore for number. And going up they camped in Machmas, at the east of Bethaven.

Lexicon
The Israelites
וּבְנֵ֣י (ū·ḇə·nê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

also mobilized,
הָתְפָּקְדוּ֙ (hā·ṯə·pā·qə·ḏū)
Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6485: To visit, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit

gathered supplies,
וְכָלְכְּל֔וּ (wə·ḵā·lə·kə·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Pual - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3557: To keep in, to measure, to maintain

and marched out
וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ (way·yê·lə·ḵū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1980: To go, come, walk

to meet them.
לִקְרָאתָ֑ם (liq·rā·ṯām)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7125: Against he come, help, meet, seek, to, in the way

The Israelites
בְנֵֽי־ (ḇə·nê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

camped
וַיַּחֲנ֨וּ (way·ya·ḥă·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2583: To incline, to decline, to pitch a, tent, gen, to encamp

before them
נֶגְדָּ֗ם (neḡ·dām)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5048: A front, part opposite, a counterpart, mate, over against, before

like two
כִּשְׁנֵי֙ (kiš·nê)
Preposition-k | Number - mdc
Strong's Hebrew 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

small flocks
חֲשִׂפֵ֣י (ḥă·śi·p̄ê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 2835: Drawn off, separated, a small company

of goats,
עִזִּ֔ים (‘iz·zîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5795: Female goat

while the Arameans
וַאֲרָ֖ם (wa·’ă·rām)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 758: Aram -- Syria

covered
מִלְא֥וּ (mil·’ū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 4390: To fill, be full of

the countryside.
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land


Additional Translations
The Israelites also mobilized, gathered supplies, and marched out to meet them. The Israelites camped before them like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside.And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.

And the children of Israel were mustered, and were victualled, and went against them: and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.

And because of the word, Achaab was pierced with sorrow before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and rent his garment, and girt sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he smote Nabuthai the Jezraelite, and went his way.

And the children of Israel were numbered and victualled, and they went against them; and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats; but the Syrians filled the land.

And the children of Israel were mustered, and were victualled, and went against them: and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.

And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.

The children of Israel were mustered, and were provisioned, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats; but the Syrians filled the country.

and the sons of Israel have been inspected, and supported, and go to meet them, and the sons of Israel encamp before them, like two flocks of goats, and the Aramaeans have filled the land.
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