7. During that battle, an Israelite soldier named Zichri killed three men from Judah: Maaseiah the king's son; Azrikam, the official in charge of the palace; and Elkanah, the king's second in command.
8. The Israelite troops captured two hundred thousand women and children and took them back to their capital city of Samaria, along with a large amount of their possessions. They did these things even though the people of Judah were their own relatives.
9. Oded lived in Samaria and was one of the Lord's prophets. He met Israel's army on their way back from Judah and said to them:The Lord God of your ancestors let you defeat Judah's army only because he was angry with them. But you should not have been so cruel!