22For three years Aram and Israel continued without war.H3427H7969H8141H4421H758H34782But in the third year King Jehoshaphat of Judah came down to the king of Israel.H7992H8141H3092H4428H3063H3381H4428H34783The king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, yet we are doing nothing to take it out of the hand of the king of Aram?"H4428H3478H559H5650H3045H7433H1568H2814H3947H3027H4428H7584He said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?" Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, "I am as you are; my people are your people, my horses are your horses."H559H3092H3212H4421H7433H1568H3092H559H4428H3478H3644H5971H5971H5483H54835But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, "Inquire first for the word of the LORD."H3092H559H4428H3478H1875H1697H3068H31176Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred of them, and said to them, "Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?" They said, "Go up; for the LORD will give it into the hand of the king."H4428H3478H6908H5030H6908H702H3967H376H559H3212H7433H1568H4421H2308H559H5927H136H5414H3027H44287But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there no other prophet of the LORD here of whom we may inquire?"H3092H559H5030H3068H5750H18758The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is still one other by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies anything favorable about me, but only disaster." Jehoshaphat said, "Let the king not say such a thing."H4428H3478H559H3092H259H376H4321H1121H3229H1875H3068H8130H5012H2896H7451H3092H559H4428H5599Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, "Bring quickly Micaiah son of Imlah."H4428H3478H7121H259H5631H559H4116H4321H1121H322910Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat 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.H4428H3478H3092H4428H3063H3427H376H3678H3847H899H1637H6607H8179H8111H5030H5012H644011Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and he said, "Thus says the LORD: With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are destroyed."H6667H1121H3668H6213H7161H1270H559H559H3068H5055H758H361512All the prophets were prophesying the same and saying, "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king."H5030H5012H559H5927H7433H1568H6743H3068H5414H4428H302713The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, "Look, 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."H4397H1980H7121H4321H1696H559H1697H5030H2896H4428H259H6310H1697H1697H259H1696H289614But Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, whatever the LORD says to me, that I will speak."H4321H559H3068H2416H3068H559H169615When he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we refrain?" He answered him, "Go up and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king."H935H4428H4428H559H4321H3212H7433H1568H4421H2308H559H5927H6743H3068H5414H3027H442816But the king said to him, "How many times must I make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?"H4428H559H6471H7650H1696H571H8034H306817Then Micaiah said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, like sheep that have no shepherd; and the LORD said, 'These have no master; let each one go home in peace.'"H559H7200H3478H6327H2022H6629H7462H3068H559H113H7725H376H1004H796518The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy anything favorable about me, but only disaster?"H4428H3478H559H3092H559H5012H2896H745119Then Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, with all the host of heaven standing beside him to the right and to the left of him.H559H8085H1697H3068H7200H3068H3427H3678H6635H8064H5975H3225H804020And the LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab, so that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?' Then one said one thing, and another said another,H3068H559H6601H256H5927H5307H7433H1568H559H3541H559H354121until a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, 'I will entice him.'H3318H7307H5975H6440H3068H559H660122'How?' the LORD asked him. He replied, 'I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' Then the LORD said, 'You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do it.'H3068H559H559H3318H8267H7307H6310H5030H559H6601H3201H3318H621323So you see, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the LORD has decreed disaster for you."H3068H5414H8267H7307H6310H5030H3068H1696H745124Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up to Micaiah, slapped him on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the spirit of the LORD pass from me to speak to you?"H6667H1121H3668H5066H5221H4321H3895H559H335H5674H7307H3068H169625Micaiah replied, "You will find out on that day when you go in to hide in an inner chamber."H4321H559H7200H3117H935H2315H2315H224726The king of Israel then ordered, "Take Micaiah, and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son,H4428H3478H559H3947H4321H7725H526H8269H5892H3101H4428H112127and say, 'Thus says the king: Put this fellow in prison, and feed him on reduced rations of bread and water until I come in peace.'"H559H559H4428H7760H1004H3608H398H3899H3906H4325H3906H935H796528Micaiah said, "If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "Hear, you peoples, all of you!"H4321H559H7725H7725H7965H3068H1696H559H8085H597129So the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.H4428H3478H3092H4428H3063H5927H7433H156830The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.H4428H3478H559H3092H2664H935H4421H3847H899H4428H3478H2664H935H442131Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, "Fight with no one small or great, but only with the king of Israel."H4428H758H6680H7970H8147H8269H7393H559H3898H6996H1419H4428H347832When 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.H8269H7393H7200H3092H559H4428H3478H5493H3898H3092H219933When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.H8269H7393H7200H4428H3478H7725H31034But a certain man drew his bow and unknowingly struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate; so he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn around, and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded."H376H4900H7198H8537H5221H4428H3478H1694H8302H559H7395H2015H3027H3318H4264H247035The battle grew hot that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans, until at evening he died; the blood from the wound had flowed into the bottom of the chariot.H4421H5927H3117H4428H5975H4818H5227H758H4191H6153H1818H3332H4347H2436H739336Then about sunset a shout went through the army, "Every man to his city, and every man to his country!"H5674H7440H4264H935H8121H559H376H5892H376H77637So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; they buried the king in Samaria.H4428H4191H935H8111H6912H4428H811138They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; the dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes washed themselves in it, according to the word of the LORD that he had spoken.H7857H7393H1295H8111H3611H3952H1818H7364H2185H1697H3068H169639Now 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 Annals of the Kings of Israel?H3499H1697H256H6213H8127H1004H1129H5892H1129H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H347840So Ahab slept with his ancestors; and his son Ahaziah succeeded him.H256H7901H1H274H1121H442741Jehoshaphat son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of King Ahab of Israel.H3092H1121H609H4427H3063H702H8141H256H4428H347842Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.H3092H7970H2568H8141H1121H4427H4427H6242H2568H8141H3389H517H8034H5806H1323H797743He walked in all the way of his father Asa; 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 offered incense on the high places.H3212H1870H609H1H5493H6213H3477H5869H3068H1116H5493H5971H2076H6999H111644Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.H3092H7999H4428H347845Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his power that he showed, and how he waged war, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah?H3499H1697H3092H1369H6213H3898H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H306346The remnant of the male temple prostitutes who were still in the land in the days of his father Asa, he exterminated.H3499H6945H7604H3117H1H609H1197H77647There was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.H4428H123H5324H442848Jehoshaphat made ships of the Tarshish type to go to Ophir for gold; but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.H3092H6213H6240H591H8659H3212H211H2091H1980H591H7665H610049Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships," but Jehoshaphat was not willing.H559H274H1121H256H3092H5650H3212H5650H591H3092H1450Jehoshaphat slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his father David; his son Jehoram succeeded him.H3092H7901H1H6912H1H5892H1732H1H3088H1121H442751Ahaziah son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of King Jehoshaphat of Judah; he reigned two years over Israel.H274H1121H256H4427H3478H8111H7651H6240H8141H3092H4428H3063H4427H8141H347852He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father and mother, and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.H6213H7451H5869H3068H3212H1870H1H1870H517H1870H3379H1121H5028H3478H239853He served Baal and worshiped him; he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.H5647H1168H7812H3707H3068H430H3478H1H6213