Once, when the Arameans went on raids, they had brought back a little girl from Israel. She became the servant of Naaman’s wife.
Elisha died and was buried. Moabite raiding parties used to invade the country in the spring.
The girl told her mistress, “If only my master were with the prophet in Samaria. Then the prophet could cure him of his skin disease.”
So the king prepared a great feast for them. They ate and drank, and then he sent them back to their master. After this, Aramean troops didn’t raid Israel’s territory anymore.
As servants depend on their masters, as a maid depends on her mistress, so we depend on the Lord our God until he has pity on us.
Abimelech and all his troops started out at night. He used four companies to set ambushes around Shechem.