{"id":6020,"date":"2017-06-19T08:51:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T12:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=oyb&#038;p=6020"},"modified":"2017-06-19T08:51:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T12:51:16","slug":"thus-says-the-lord-because-the-syrians-have-said-the-lord-is-god-of-the-hills-but-he-is-not-god-of-the-valleys-therefore-i-will-deliver-all-this-great-multitude","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/thus-says-the-lord-because-the-syrians-have-said-the-lord-is-god-of-the-hills-but-he-is-not-god-of-the-valleys-therefore-i-will-deliver-all-this-great-multitude","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThus says the Lord: \u2018Because the Syrians have said, \u201cThe Lord is God of the hills, but He is not God of the valleys,\u201d therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.\u2019\u201d (1 Kings 20:28 NKJV)."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"arscm\" data-offset-key=\"2jubb-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2jubb-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2jubb-0-0\">Ben-Hadad, the king of Syria, thought he had picked a fight with Ahab, king of Israel, but in fact, he had picked a fight with God. Ahab was one of the most wicked kings in Israel&#8217;s history, so it seems surprising that the Lord would protect him from the armies of Syria. But the Lord was not defending Ahab. He was defending His own Name. He wanted both Israel and Syria to recognize that He was not some local man-made deity, but the only true God and Creator of all. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"arscm\" data-offset-key=\"86v7p-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"86v7p-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"86v7p-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"arscm\" data-offset-key=\"6n3v1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6n3v1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6n3v1-0-0\">His desire has always been that &#8220;you shall know that I AM the Lord.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben-Hadad, the king of Syria, thought he had picked a fight with Ahab, king of Israel, but in fact, he had picked a fight with God. Ahab was one of the most wicked kings in Israel&#8217;s history, so it seems surprising that the Lord would protect him from the armies of Syria. But the Lord was not defending Ahab. He was defending His own Name. He wanted both Israel and Syria to recognize that He was not some local man-made deity, but the only true God and Creator of all. <\/p>\n<p>His desire has always been that &#8220;you shall know that I AM the Lord.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1278],"scripture-chapter":[1353],"oyb_day":[1697],"location":[],"class_list":["post-6020","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-1-kings","scripture-chapter-1353","oyb_day-june-19"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/6020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6020"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=6020"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=6020"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=6020"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=6020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}