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2Ki_7:6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Ver. 6. To hear a noise of chariots.] Some think this noise was not in the air, but in their ears only, because none else heard it. But God can easily hold men’s senses, as hath been showed. {2Ki_6:18 Act_9:18} And it is likely that the angels made a hurrying noise in the air over their heads, which struck them into a great fear, and set them going in such posthaste, that they left their horses behind them. See a like miracle, 2Sa_5:24, and observe how
“ Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus. ”
So the Roman historian reporteth, that by the noise of a great laughter, Hannibal’s great army lying at the gates of Rome was suddenly frightened and made to run away; whereupon a temple Deo Ridiculo, to the laughing god, was consecrated in via Appia, in the highway to the city.
Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us.] A mere fancy of their own: whereby the Lord would, as it were, in a way of scorn and derision, put them into this disorder, running without any real cause, like so many madmen. God could have taken another course with them, as to have slain them by his angels, consumed them with fire from heaven, &c. About the year of grace 394, Theodosius had a great victory over the Persians and Saracens, whilst the Lord smote them with a panic terror, so that they ran headlong into the river Euphrates, and there perished in the waters above a hundred thousand of them, saith mine author. {a}
{a} Alsted., Chronol., p. 300.