Oded the Prophet עודד הנביא

What was under way was the Syro-Ephraimite war: Pekah king of Israel, together with Aram, defeated Ahaz king of Judah, and the army returned to Samaria with enormous spoil and a great many captives — women, sons and daughters.

At the gate a prophet named Oded met them: "behold, in the LORD's fury against Judah He gave them into your hand, and you slaughtered them with a rage that reaches to heaven. And now you intend to subject the sons of Judah and Jerusalem as your slaves and slave-women — but are you not yourselves guilty before the LORD your God?" Send the captives back, he said, for the LORD's anger is upon you.

And then comes what the chapter is read for. Four named heads of the tribe of Ephraim stood up against the men returning from war. The captives were released. The men named by name "rose and took the captives, and all the naked among them they clothed from the spoil: they clothed them, shod them, fed them, gave them drink, anointed them, set all the weak on donkeys and brought them to Jericho, the city of palms, to their brothers."

This is the only place in the books of Kings where the victors themselves, at a prophet's word, give back the spoil and take the captives home alive and clothed.