For the Lord had caused the Aramean camp to hear the sound of chariots, horses, even the sound of a large army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to come against us.”
They imported chariots from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver and a horse for one hundred and fifty pieces. Likewise, through them, these were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and kings of the Arameans.
Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shan, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, or their daughter villages, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that land.