22For three years Syria and Israel continued without war.H3427H7969H8141H4421H758H3478

2But in the third year Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.H7992H8141H3092H4428H3063H3381H4428H3478

3And the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we keep quiet and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?"H4428H3478H559H5650H3045H7433H1568H2814H3947H3027H4428H758

4And he said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?" And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses."H559H3092H3212H4421H7433H1568H3092H559H4428H3478H3644H5971H5971H5483H5483

5And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Inquire first for the word of the LORD."H3092H559H4428H3478H1875H1697H3068H3117

6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?" And they said, "Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king."H4428H3478H6908H5030H6908H702H3967H376H559H3212H7433H1568H4421H2308H559H5927H136H5414H3027H4428

7But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not here another prophet of the LORD of whom we may inquire?"H3092H559H5030H3068H5750H1875

8And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so."H4428H3478H559H3092H259H376H4321H1121H3229H1875H3068H8130H5012H2896H7451H3092H559H4428H559

9Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, "Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah."H4428H3478H7121H259H5631H559H4116H4321H1121H3229

10Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.H4428H3478H3092H4428H3063H3427H376H3678H3847H899H1637H6607H8179H8111H5030H5012H6440

11And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.'"H6667H1121H3668H6213H7161H1270H559H559H3068H5055H758H3615

12And all the prophets prophesied so and said, "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king."H5030H5012H559H5927H7433H1568H6743H3068H5414H4428H3027

13And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, "Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king. Let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably."H4397H1980H7121H4321H1696H559H1697H5030H2896H4428H259H6310H1697H1697H259H1696H2896

14But Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak."H4321H559H3068H2416H3068H559H1696

15And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we refrain?" And he answered him, "Go up and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king."H935H4428H4428H559H4321H3212H7433H1568H4421H2308H559H5927H6743H3068H5414H3027H4428

16But the king said to him, "How many times shall I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?"H4428H559H6471H7650H1696H571H8034H3068

17And he said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the LORD said, 'These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.'"H559H7200H3478H6327H2022H6629H7462H3068H559H113H7725H376H1004H7965

18And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?"H4428H3478H559H3092H559H5012H2896H7451

19And Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left;H559H8085H1697H3068H7200H3068H3427H3678H6635H8064H5975H3225H8040

20and the LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?' And one said one thing, and another said another.H3068H559H6601H256H5927H5307H7433H1568H559H3541H559H3541

21Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, 'I will entice him.'H3318H7307H5975H6440H3068H559H6601

22And the LORD said to him, 'By what means?' And he said, 'I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And he said, 'You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.'H3068H559H559H3318H8267H7307H6310H5030H559H6601H3201H3318H6213

23Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the LORD has declared disaster for you."H3068H5414H8267H7307H6310H5030H3068H1696H7451

24Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "How did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?"H6667H1121H3668H5066H5221H4321H3895H559H335H5674H7307H3068H1696

25And Micaiah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself."H4321H559H7200H3117H935H2315H2315H2247

26And the king of Israel said, "Seize Micaiah, and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son,H4428H3478H559H3947H4321H7725H526H8269H5892H3101H4428H1121

27and say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace."'"H559H559H4428H7760H1004H3608H398H3899H3906H4325H3906H935H7965

28And Micaiah said, "If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "Hear, all you peoples!"H4321H559H7725H7725H7965H3068H1696H559H8085H5971

29So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.H4428H3478H3092H4428H3063H5927H7433H1568

30And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes." And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.H4428H3478H559H3092H2664H935H4421H3847H899H4428H3478H2664H935H4421

31Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, "Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel."H4428H758H6680H7970H8147H8269H7393H559H3898H6996H1419H4428H3478

32And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "It is surely the king of Israel." So they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out.H8269H7393H7200H3092H559H4428H3478H5493H3898H3092H2199

33And when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.H8269H7393H7200H4428H3478H7725H310

34But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded."H376H4900H7198H8537H5221H4428H3478H1694H8302H559H7395H2015H3027H3318H4264H2470

35And the battle continued that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, until at evening he died. And the blood of the wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot.H4421H5927H3117H4428H5975H4818H5227H758H4191H6153H1818H3332H4347H2436H7393

36And about sunset a cry went through the army, "Every man to his city, and every man to his country!"H5674H7440H4264H935H8121H559H376H5892H376H776

37So the king died, and was brought to Samaria. And they buried the king in Samaria.H4428H4191H935H8111H6912H4428H8111

38And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes washed themselves in it, according to the word of the LORD that he had spoken.H7857H7393H1295H8111H3611H3952H1818H7364H2185H1697H3068H1696

39Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the ivory house that he built and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?H3499H1697H256H6213H8127H1004H1129H5892H1129H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H3478

40So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.H256H7901H1H274H1121H4427

41Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.H3092H1121H609H4427H3063H702H8141H256H4428H3478

42Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.H3092H7970H2568H8141H1121H4427H4427H6242H2568H8141H3389H517H8034H5806H1323H7977

43He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD. Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.H3212H1870H609H1H5493H6213H3477H5869H3068H1116H5493H5971H2076H6999H1116

44Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.H3092H7999H4428H3478

45Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?H3499H1697H3092H1369H6213H3898H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H3063

46And from the land he exterminated the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa.H3499H6945H7604H3117H1H609H1197H776

47There was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.H4428H123H5324H4428

48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.H3092H6213H6240H591H8659H3212H211H2091H1980H591H7665H6100

49Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships," but Jehoshaphat was not willing.H559H274H1121H256H3092H5650H3212H5650H591H3092H14

50And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.H3092H7901H1H6912H1H5892H1732H1H3088H1121H4427

51Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.H274H1121H256H4427H3478H8111H7651H6240H8141H3092H4428H3063H4427H8141H3478

52He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.H6213H7451H5869H3068H3212H1870H1H1870H517H1870H3379H1121H5028H3478H2398

53He served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger in every way that his father had done.H5647H1168H7812H3707H3068H430H3478H1H6213