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The Lord will give it into the power of the king.”<a id="rfn11022006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn11022006-1">*</a> <span id="v11022007" class="ver">7</span>But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no other prophet of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> here we might consult?” <span id="v11022008" class="ver">8</span>The king of Israel answered, “There is one other man through whom we might consult the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>; but I hate him because he prophesies not good but evil about me. He is Micaiah, son of Imlah.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say that.” <span id="v11022009" class="ver">9</span>So the king of Israel called an official and said to him, “Get Micaiah, son of Imlah, at once.”</p> <p><span id="v11022010" class="ver">10</span>The king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, were seated, each on his throne, clothed in their robes of state in the square at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them. <span id="v11022011" class="ver">11</span><a id="ren11022011-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en11022011-a">a</a> Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah, made himself two horns of iron<a id="rfn11022011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn11022011-1">*</a> and said, “The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> says, With these you shall gore Aram until you have destroyed them.” <span id="v11022012" class="ver">12</span>The other prophets prophesied in a similar vein, saying: “Attack Ramoth-gilead and conquer! The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will give it into the power of the king.”</p> <p><span id="v11022013" class="ver">13</span>Meanwhile, the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah said to him, “Look now, the prophets are unanimously predicting good for the king. Let your word be the same as any of theirs; speak a good word.” <span id="v11022014" class="ver">14</span>Micaiah said, “As the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> lives, I shall speak whatever the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> tells me.”</p> <p><span id="v11022015" class="ver">15</span>When he came to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to fight at Ramoth-gilead, or shall we refrain?” He said, “Attack and conquer! The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will give it into the power of the king.” <span id="v11022016" class="ver">16</span>But the king answered him, “How many times must I adjure you to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>?” <span id="v11022017" class="ver">17</span><a id="rfn11022017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn11022017-1">*</a> So Micaiah said:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">“I see all Israel</p> <p class="sl1">scattered on the mountains,</p> <p class="sl1">like sheep without a shepherd,</p> <p class="sl">And the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> saying,</p> <p class="sl1">These have no master!</p> <p class="sl1l">Let each of them go back home in peace.”</p> </div> <p class="pcon"><span id="v11022018" class="ver">18</span>The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you, he does not prophesy good about me, but only evil?” <span id="v11022019" class="ver">19</span><a id="rfn11022019-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn11022019-1">*</a> Micaiah continued: “Therefore hear the word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>: I saw the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> seated on his throne, with the whole host of heaven standing to his right and to his left. <span id="v11022020" class="ver">20</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> asked: Who will deceive Ahab, so that he will go up and fall on Ramoth-gilead?<a id="rfn11022020-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn11022020-1">*</a> And one said this, another that, <span id="v11022021" class="ver">21</span>until this spirit came forth and stood before the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, saying, ‘I will deceive him.’ The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> asked: How? <span id="v11022022" class="ver">22</span>He answered, ‘I will go forth and become a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> replied: You shall succeed in deceiving him. Go forth and do this. <span id="v11022023" class="ver">23</span>So now, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours; the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> himself has decreed evil against you.”</p> <p><span id="v11022024" class="ver">24</span>Thereupon Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah, came up and struck Micaiah on the cheek, saying, “Has the spirit of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, then, left me to speak with you?” <span id="v11022025" class="ver">25</span>Micaiah said, “You shall find out on the day you go into an inner room to hide.” <span id="v11022026" class="ver">26</span>The king of Israel then said, “Seize Micaiah and take him back to Amon, prefect of the city, and to Joash, the king’s son, <span id="v11022027" class="ver">27</span>and say, ‘This is the king’s order: Put this man in prison and feed him scanty rations of bread and water until I come back in safety.’ ” <span id="v11022028" class="ver">28</span><a id="ren11022028-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en11022028-b">b</a> But Micaiah said, “If you return in safety, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> has not spoken through me.” (He also said, “Hear, O peoples, all of you.”)<a id="rfn11022028-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn11022028-1">*</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Ahab at Ramoth-gilead.</span> <span id="v11022029" class="ver">29</span>The king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead, <span id="v11022030" class="ver">30</span>and the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you put on your own robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and entered the battle. <span id="v11022031" class="ver">31</span>In the meantime the king of Aram had given his thirty-two chariot commanders the order, “Do not fight with anyone, great or small, except the king of Israel alone.”</p> <p><span id="v11022032" class="ver">32</span>When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they cried out, “There is the king of Israel!” and wheeled to fight him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, <span id="v11022033" class="ver">33</span>and the chariot commanders, seeing that he was not the king of Israel, turned away from him. <span id="v11022034" class="ver">34</span>But someone drew his bow at random, and hit the king of Israel between the joints of his breastplate. He ordered his charioteer, “Rein about and take me out of the ranks, for I am wounded.”</p> <p><span id="v11022035" class="ver">35</span><a id="ren11022035-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en11022035-c">c</a> The battle grew fierce during the day, and the king, who was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans, died in the evening. The blood from his wound flowed to the bottom of the chariot. <span id="v11022036" class="ver">36</span>At sunset a cry went through the army, “Every man to his city, every man to his land!”</p> <p><span id="v11022037" class="ver">37</span>And so the king died, and came back to Samaria, and they buried him there. <span id="v11022038" class="ver">38</span><a id="ren11022038-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en11022038-d">d</a> When they washed out the chariot at the pool of Samaria, the dogs licked up his blood and prostitutes bathed there, as the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had prophesied.</p> <p><span id="v11022039" class="ver">39</span>The rest of the acts of Ahab, with all that he did, including the ivory house he built and all the cities he built, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. <span id="v11022040" class="ver">40</span>Ahab rested with his ancestors, and his son Ahaziah succeeded him as king.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Reign of Jehoshaphat.</span> <span id="v11022041" class="ver">41</span>Jehoshaphat, son of Asa, became king of Judah in the fourth year of Ahab, king of Israel. <span id="v11022042" class="ver">42</span>Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah, daughter of Shilhi.</p> <p><span id="v11022043" class="ver">43</span>He walked in the way of Asa his father unceasingly, doing what was right in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight. <span id="v11022044" class="ver">44</span>Nevertheless, the high places did not disappear, and the people still sacrificed on the high places and burned incense there. <span id="v11022045" class="ver">45</span>Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.</p> <p><span id="v11022046" class="ver">46</span>The rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, with his valor, what he did and how he fought, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah. <span id="v11022047" class="ver">47</span>He removed from the land the rest of the pagan priests who had remained in the reign of Asa his father. <span id="v11022048" class="ver">48</span>There was no king in Edom, but an appointed regent. <span id="v11022049" class="ver">49</span>Jehoshaphat made Tarshish ships to go to Ophir for gold; but in fact the ships did not go, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber. <span id="v11022050" class="ver">50</span>That was the time when Ahaziah, son of Ahab, had said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants accompany your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat would not agree. <span id="v11022051" class="ver">51</span>Jehoshaphat rested with his ancestors; he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David his father, and his son Jehoram succeeded him as king.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Reign of Ahaziah.<a id="rfn11022052-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn11022052-1">*</a></span> <span id="v11022052" class="ver">52</span>Ahaziah, son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year<a id="rfn11022052-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn11022052-2">*</a> of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; he reigned two years over Israel.</p> <p><span id="v11022053" class="ver">53</span>He did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, walking in the way of his father, his mother, and Jeroboam, son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. <span id="v11022054" class="ver">54</span>He served Baal and worshiped him, thus provoking the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, just as his father had done.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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