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1Kings 22
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22Three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.H3427H7969H8141H4421H758H3478
2During that third year, King Jehoshaphat of Judah went to visit the king of Israel.H7992H8141H3092H4428H3063H3381H4428H3478
3The king of Israel asked his servants, "Were you aware that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, but we aren't doing anything to remove it from the control of the king of Aram?"H4428H3478H559H5650H3045H7433H1568H2814H3947H3027H4428H758
4Then he asked Jehoshaphat, "Will you join me in battle against Ramoth-gilead?" "I'm with you," Jehoshaphat answered the king of Israel. "My army will join yours, and my cavalry will be your cavalry."H559H3092H3212H4421H7433H1568H3092H559H4428H3478H3644H5971H5971H5483H5483
5But Jehoshaphat also asked the king of Israel, "Please ask for a message from the Lord, first."H3092H559H4428H3478H1875H1697H3068H3117
6So the king of Israel called in about 400 prophets and asked them, "Should we go attack Ramoth-gilead, or should I call off the attack?" "Go attack them," they all said, "because the Lord will drop them right into the king's hand!"H4428H3478H6908H5030H6908H702H3967H376H559H3212H7433H1568H4421H2308H559H5927H136H5414H3027H4428
7But Jehoshaphat asked, "Isn't there a prophet of the Lord left here that we could talk to?"H3092H559H5030H3068H5750H1875
8"There is still one man left by whom we could ask the Lord what to do," the king of Israel replied to Jehoshaphat, "but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me. Instead, he prophesies evil. He is Imla's son Micaiah." But Jehoshaphat rebuked Ahab, "Kings should never talk like that."H4428H3478H559H3092H259H376H4321H1121H3229H1875H3068H8130H5012H2896H7451H3092H559H4428H559
9Nevertheless, the king of Israel called one of his officers and ordered him, "Bring me Imla's son Micaiah quickly."H4428H3478H7121H259H5631H559H4116H4321H1121H3229
10Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were each sitting on their respective thrones, arrayed in their robes, on the threshing floor at the entrance to the city gate of Samaria, and all of the prophets were prophesying in front of them.H4428H3478H3092H4428H3063H3427H376H3678H3847H899H1637H6607H8179H8111H5030H5012H6440
11Chenaanah's son Zedekiah made iron horns for himself and told them, "This is what the Lord says, 'With these horns you are to gore the Arameans until they are eliminated!'"H6667H1121H3668H6213H7161H1270H559H559H3068H5055H758H3615
12All the other prophets were saying similar things, like "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and you will be successful, because the Lord will hand it over to the king!"H5030H5012H559H5927H7433H1568H6743H3068H5414H4428H3027
13Meanwhile, the messenger who had gone off to summon Micaiah advised him, "Look, everything that the other prophets were saying was unanimously favorable to the king. So please, cooperate with them and speak favorably."H4397H1980H7121H4321H1696H559H1697H5030H2896H4428H259H6310H1697H1697H259H1696H2896
14"As the Lord lives," Micaiah replied, "I'll say what my God tells me to say."H4321H559H3068H2416H3068H559H1696
15When Micaiah approached the king, the king asked him, "Micaiah, should we go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should I not?" "Go to war," Micaiah replied, "and you will be successful, because the Lord will hand it over to the king!"H935H4428H4428H559H4321H3212H7433H1568H4421H2308H559H5927H6743H3068H5414H3027H4428
16When he heard this, the king asked him, "How many times do I have to make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth?Now do it in the name of the Lord!"H4428H559H6471H7650H1696H571H8034H3068
17So Micaiah replied: I saw all of Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep without a shepherd. And the Lord told me, 'These have no master, so let them each return to his own home in peace.'"H559H7200H3478H6327H2022H6629H7462H3068H559H113H7725H376H1004H7965
18Then the king of Israel told Jehoshaphat, "Didn't I tell you that he wouldn't prophesy anything good about me, but only evil?"H4428H3478H559H3092H559H5012H2896H7451
19But Micaiah responded, "Therefore, listen to what the Lord has to say. I saw the Lord, sitting on his throne, and the entire Heavenly Army was standing around him on his right hand and on his left hand.H559H8085H1697H3068H7200H3068H3427H3678H6635H8064H5975H3225H8040
20"The Lord asked, 'Who will tempt King Ahab of Israel to attack Ramoth-gilead, so that he will die there?' And one was saying one thing and one was saying another.H3068H559H6601H256H5927H5307H7433H1568H559H3541H559H3541
21"But then a spirit approached, stood in front of the Lord, and said, 'I will entice him.'H3318H7307H5975H6440H3068H559H6601
22"And the Lord asked him, 'How?' "'I will go,' he announced, 'and I will be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all of his prophets!' "So the Lord said, 'You're just the one to deceive him. You will be successful. Go and do it.'H3068H559H559H3318H8267H7307H6310H5030H559H6601H3201H3318H6213
23"Now therefore, listen! The Lord has placed a lying spirit in the mouth of all of these prophets of yours, because the Lord has determined to bring disaster upon you."H3068H5414H8267H7307H6310H5030H3068H1696H7451
24Right then, Chenaanah's son Zedekiah approached Micaiah and struck him on the cheek. Then he asked him, "How did the Spirit of the Lord move from me to speak to you?"H6667H1121H3668H5066H5221H4321H3895H559H335H5674H7307H3068H1696
25Micaiah replied, "You'll see how when the day comes that you run away to hide yourself in a closet!"H4321H559H7200H3117H935H2315H2315H2247
26Then the king of Israel ordered, "Take Micaiah and place him in the custody of Amon, the city governor. Hand him over to Joash, the king's son.H4428H3478H559H3947H4321H7725H526H8269H5892H3101H4428H1121
27Give him this order: 'Place him in prison on survival rations of bread and water only until I come back safely.'"H559H559H4428H7760H1004H3608H398H3899H3906H4325H3906H935H7965
28"If you return alive," Micaiah responded, "then the Lord has not spoken by me." Then he added, "Listen, all you people!"H4321H559H7725H7725H7965H3068H1696H559H8085H5971
29So the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah both attacked Ramoth-gilead.H4428H3478H3092H4428H3063H5927H7433H1568
30The king of Israel suggested to Jehoshaphat, "I'll go into battle in disguise, but you keep your royal uniform on." So the king of Israel disguised himself and they both went into the battle.H4428H3478H559H3092H2664H935H4421H3847H899H4428H3478H2664H935H4421
31Meanwhile, the king of Aram had issued these orders to 32 of his chariot commanders: "Don't attack unimportant soldiers or ranking officers. Go after only the king of Israel."H4428H758H6680H7970H8147H8269H7393H559H3898H6996H1419H4428H3478
32So when the chariot commanders observed Jehoshaphat, they said by mistake, "It's the king of Israel!" and they turned aside to attack him. But Jehoshaphat cried out.H8269H7393H7200H3092H559H4428H3478H5493H3898H3092H2199
33When the chariot commanders saw that their target was not the king of Israel, they stopped pursuing him.H8269H7393H7200H4428H3478H7725H310
34Meanwhile, somebody drew his bow aimlessly and struck the king of Israel between the scales where his armor breastplates joined, so he instructed his chariot driver, "Turn around and take me out of the battle, because I've been severely wounded."H376H4900H7198H8537H5221H4428H3478H1694H8302H559H7395H2015H3027H3318H4264H2470
35The battle continued on for the rest of the day while the king of Israel was propped up in front of the Arameans until the sun set, at which time he died. The blood from Ahab's wound ran down into the bottom of the chariot.H4421H5927H3117H4428H5975H4818H5227H758H4191H6153H1818H3332H4347H2436H7393
36As the day drew to a close, this order was circulated throughout the army telling the soldiers, "Everybody go back to his city and to his own land."H5674H7440H4264H935H8121H559H376H5892H376H776
37So the king died and was brought back to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria.H4428H4191H935H8111H6912H4428H8111
38They washed the chariot by the reservoir of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood near where the prostitutes went to bathe, in keeping with the message that the Lord had spoken.H7857H7393H1295H8111H3611H3952H1818H7364H2185H1697H3068H1696
39Now as to the rest of Ahab's accomplishments, everything that he undertook, the ivory palace he built, and the cities that he built, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel, are they not?H3499H1697H256H6213H8127H1004H1129H5892H1129H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H3478
40That's how Ahab died, just as his ancestors had, and his son Ahaziah became king in his place.H256H7901H1H274H1121H4427
41Asa's son Jehoshaphat became king over Judah during the fourth year of the reign of King Ahab of Israel.H3092H1121H609H4427H3063H702H8141H256H4428H3478
42Jehoshaphat was 35 years old when he became king. He reigned 25 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah. She was the daughter of Shilhi.H3092H7970H2568H8141H1121H4427H4427H6242H2568H8141H3389H517H8034H5806H1323H7977
43He lived like his father Asa and never abandoned that life. He did what the Lord considered to be right. Nevertheless, the high places were not demolished, and the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.H3212H1870H609H1H5493H6213H3477H5869H3068H1116H5493H5971H2076H6999H1116
44Jehoshaphat also made a peace treaty with the king of Israel.H3092H7999H4428H3478
45Now the rest of Jeshoshaphat's accomplishments, the power that he demonstrated, and how he waged war are written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah, are they not?H3499H1697H3092H1369H6213H3898H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H3063
46He also eliminated the male cult prostitutes who still remained from the time of his father Asa.H3499H6945H7604H3117H1H609H1197H776
47There was no king reigning in Edom; there was only a stand-in king.H4428H123H5324H4428
48Jehoshaphat had ocean-going vessels from Tarshish sail to Ophir for gold, but they never made it because they were shipwrecked at Ezion-geber.H3092H6213H6240H591H8659H3212H211H2091H1980H591H7665H6100
49Ahab's son Ahaziah had offered to go. "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships!" he said. But Jehoshaphat was not willing.H559H274H1121H256H3092H5650H3212H5650H591H3092H14
50Later, Jehoshaphat died, as did his ancestors, and he was buried alongside his ancestors in the city of David. Jehoram his son became king in his place.H3092H7901H1H6912H1H5892H1732H1H3088H1121H4427
51Ahab's son Ahaziah became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of King Jehoshaphat of Judah. He reigned for two years over Israel.H274H1121H256H4427H3478H8111H7651H6240H8141H3092H4428H3063H4427H8141H3478
52He practiced what the Lord considered to be evil by living life like his father and mother did. He lived like Nebat's son Jeroboam, who led Israel into sin.H6213H7451H5869H3068H3212H1870H1H1870H517H1870H3379H1121H5028H3478H2398
53He served Baal, worshipped him, and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger, in accordance with everything his father had done.H5647H1168H7812H3707H3068H430H3478H1H6213


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