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He also asked for the help of 100,000 powerful soldiers from Israel and paid them with silver weighing as much as 100 men. But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you. For the Lord is not with Israel. He is not with all these sons of Ephraim. But if you think that in this way you will be strong in war, God will destroy you in front of those who fight you. For God has power to help and to destroy.”

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