Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him - The Septuagint has a better reading: they sent and told the king of Syria.

And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him…

And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first From Samaria, before the 7000 …

The proud Syrians were beaten, and the despised Israelites were conquerors. The orders of the proud, drunken king disordered his troops, and preven…