Then a man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because the Arameans have said, "The LORD is a god of the mountains, but He is not a god of the valleys," therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.'"The Arameans had been defeated in a very lopsided battle, which they should have won easily. Like most people, they tried to figure out what went wrong. Obviously they didn't lose because of bad tactics or any such, so it must have been a spiritual defeat. Since the fight happened in the mountains, it must be that the Israelites' God is more powerful than theirs in the mountains.
But under their system of thinking, gods were like people, having strengths and weaknesses. Since God was strong in the mountains, he must not be strong in the lowlands. So if they fight there, their gods should be superior, and they can win. However, this is not the case. God is supreme everywhere, He has no weaknesses or faults. We make the mistake of thinking He is simply a more powerful version of one of us, when that has never been true.
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