For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
The Lord had made the Syrians This ill sion of the sense of hearing hereb the besiegers (ho be it The Lord had made ... the Syrians. This illusion of the sense of hearing, whereby the besiegers (who, be it remembered, had not mediated assault, but only reducing the city by famine) imagined the tramp of two armies from opposite quarters, was a great miracle, which God performed directly for the deliverance of His people.