1 Kings 15:20

So[R.V. And] Ben-hadad hearkened The conjunction is the simple copulative, and is so rendered in the parallel place in Chronicles.

the captains of the hosts which he had This is an attempt to represent the Hebrew construction. But it is not nearly so idiomatic as the translation in Chronicles which the R.V. has followed, that the same Hebrew might have in both places the same English rendering: the captains of his armies.

and smote Ijon This town lay in the north of Palestine and belonged to the tribe of Naphtali. It was attacked and plundered again in later days by Tiglath-pileser (2 Kings 15:29).

and Dan This was the town formerly called Laish, which had been seized in the days of the Judges by some Danites from the south (Joshua 19:47; Judges 18:29). It lay on the extreme north of the country, so that -from Dan to Beersheba" became an expression to describe the whole country from north to south.

and Abel-beth-maachah This city, like the rest, lay quite in the north, and was early a place of some importance. It is called -a city and a mother in Israel" (2 Samuel 20:9). In the parallel passage in Chronicles the name is given as -Abel-maim," i.e. -Abel on the waters."

all Cinneroth R.V. Chinneroth. From the way in which it is here mentioned this appears to have been a district and not a town. It was probably named from the lake of Gennesareth, or sea of Tiberias, which was in that neighbourhood, and was anciently called -the sea of Chinnereth" (Numbers 24:11; Joshua 13:27).

Naphtali This tribe lay directly in the way of Syrian and Assyrian invaders.