The Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites again.
When the Arameans withdrew, they left Joash severely wounded.
After that, the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites.
The Arameans saw that they had been driven away by Israel.
And Elisha also prayed that the Arameans army would to be blind.
Joab said,"If the Arameans are stronger than I, you shall help me.
When Elisha's servant, Gehazi, saw the Arameans that had come against them, he was afraid.
Posidonius noted that the people called Syrians by the Greeks refer to themselves as Arameans.
Joab said:»If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to rescue me.
The prophet Elisha prophesied of the slaughters that the Arameans would do to God's people(2 Kings 8:12).
Later, during the time of the wicked King Ahab, the Lord allowed the Arameans to afflict Israel.
And the Arameans fled and Israel pursued them,
and Ben-hadad king of Aram escaped on a horse with horsemen.
Although the Arameans made a coalition with the Ammonites to attack Israel(2 Samuel 10),
the Israelites overcame them again.
Therefore, God punished Ahab(1 Kings 21:20- 22)
and he was killed in a war with the Arameans(1 Kings 22:34- 38).
And what does he say, verse 11,“If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you shall help me.
The king got up in the night and said to his officers,"I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us.
During the reign of King David, the Arameans took the place of the dwellers of the Orontes valley
and settled as far south as Damascus and Beth-Rehob on the southern skirts of Hermon 2 Sam.