5 So his god Yahweh allowed King Ahaz to be defeated by the king of Aram—they attacked and took many prisoners back to Damascus. In addition, Yahweh allowed the king of Yisrael to be victorious and they slaughtered many fighters.[ref] 6 Yisrael’s King Pekah (Remalyah’s son) killed 120,000 powerful warriors in Yehudah in one day, after they’d abandoned the god of their ancestors. 7 A warrior from Efrayim named Zikri killed King Ahaz’s son Maaseyah, Azrikam the palace supervisor, and Elkanah the king’s second-in-command. 8 Yisrael’s soldiers captured two-hundred thousand of their relatives, including their wives and children. They also took a lot of plunder back to Shomron (Samaria) with them.