1 Kings 22:32

And it came to pass when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely [ אַךְ , not only (Bähr, Keil), but certainly ; cf. Genesis 44:28 ; 3:24 ; 2 Kings 24:3 ] it [Heb. he ] is the king of Israel . And they turned aside [Cf. 1 Kings 20:39 , same word. The Hebrew inserts עָלָיו . The chronicler reads יָסֹבוּ they surrounded him, instead of יָסֻרוּ ; and the LXX . has ἐκύκλωσεν , in both places. But the Syrians can hardly have actually closed round the king, and the alteration might easily be made in the course of transcription] to fight against him [according to their instructions]: and Jehoshaphat cried out. [This cry has been very variously interpreted. According to some, it was his own name that he ejaculated, which is possible, if the command of 1 Kings 20:31 was known in the allied army. According to others, it was the battle cry of Judah, which, it is said, would be familiar to the Syrians, and which would rally his own soldiers round him. The Vulgate, no doubt influenced by the words of 2 Chronicles 18:31 , "And the Lord helped him, and God moved them to depart from him," interprets, clamavit ad Dominum . That it was a cry for Divine help is the most probable, because it is almost an instinct, especially with a pious soul like Jehoshaphat, to cry to God in the moment of danger. That he had doubts as to whether the course he was pursuing was pleasing to God, would make him all the more ready to cry aloud for mercy the moment he found himself in peril. But it may have been merely a cry of terror. It must be carefully observed that the Scripture does not say that it was this cry led to his being recognized and spared.]