Israelite–Aramean War
According to 1 Kings 20:1–34 and 2 Kings 6:8–7:16, the Israelite–Aramean War was an armed conflict between the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) led by king Ahab and the Kingdom of Aram-Damascus led by king Ben-Hadad I. == 1 Kings 20 == Biblical scholar Burke O. Long (1985) concluded that 1 Kings 20 should be understood as a "historical narrative": it is partially fictional, with clear literary inventions that did not happen, but are meant to dramatise the story with creative imagination; and partially an attempt at a factual telling of past events as understood by the author. Long put the historical narrative somewhere between "popular legend (meaning, of little or no historical value, e.g.