One last battle in Afek during the time of King Yoash and the prophet Elisha, in which Yoash violates the prophet’s words and does not completely defeat his enemy. This enables us to summarize the message that emerges from all the Afek stories – in all of them there is a motif of not listening to the prophet’s words. We will see how this also fits with Ahab’s victorious battle that ended in the political alliance with Ben-Hadad, because of which Ahab received the prophecy about his death and the destruction of his kingdom
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