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and all the prophets were prophesying before them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron and said, “Thus says the LORD: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans (Syrians) until they are destroyed.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>All the prophets were prophesying in the same way [to please Ahab], saying, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and be successful, for the LORD will hand it over to the king.” <p class="hdg">Micaiah Predicts Defeat</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>Listen carefully, the words of the prophets are unanimously favorable to the king. Please let your words be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, I will speak what the LORD says to me.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So when he came to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth-gilead in battle, or shall we not?” And he answered him, “Go up and be successful, for the LORD will hand it over to the king.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But the king [doubted him and] said to him, “How many times must I make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he said, <p class="indent1stline">“I saw all Israel <t><p class="indent1">Scattered upon the mountains, <t><p class="indent1">Like sheep that have no shepherd. <t><p class="indent1">And the LORD said, <t><p class="indent1">‘These have no master. <t><p class="indent1">Let each of them return to his house in peace.’” <A><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Micaiah said, “Therefore, hear the word of the LORD. I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host (army) of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said this, while another said that. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD and said, ‘I will entice him.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The LORD said to him, ‘How?’ And he said, ‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then the LORD said, ‘You are to entice him and also succeed. Go and do so.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Now then, behold, the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these prophets; and the LORD has proclaimed disaster against you.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah approached and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the LORD pass from me to speak to you?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day [of the king’s defeat] when you enter an inner room [looking for a place] to hide yourself.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon, the governor of the city, and to Joash, the king’s son, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this man in prison, and feed him sparingly with the bread and water until I return safely.”’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Micaiah said, “If you indeed return safely, the LORD has not spoken by me.” Then he said, “Listen, all you people.” <p class="hdg">Defeat and Death of Ahab</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So [Ahab] the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and enter the battle, but you put on your [royal] clothing.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Now the king of Aram (Syria) had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Do not fight with [anyone, either] small or great, but with [Ahab] the king of Israel alone.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely it is the king of Israel.” They turned to fight against him, and Jehoshaphat shouted out [in fear]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>But one man drew a bow at <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and take me out of the fight, because I have been seriously wounded.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The battle raged that day, and [Ahab] the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans (Syrians). And in the evening he died, and the blood from his wound ran down into the bottom of the chariot. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Then about sundown a resounding cry passed throughout the army, saying, “Every man to his city and every man to his own country!” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>They washed the chariot by the pool [on the outskirts] of Samaria, where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up his blood, in accordance with the word of the LORD which He had spoken. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Now the rest of Ahab’s acts, and everything that he did, the ivory palace which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>So Ahab slept with his fathers [in death], and Ahaziah his son became king in his place. <p class="hdg">The New Rulers</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Now Jehoshaphat the son of Asa became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></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 the daughter of Shilhi. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>He walked in all the ways of Asa his father, without turning from them, doing right in the sight of the LORD. However, the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, his might which he displayed and how he made war, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>And the remnant of the sodomites (male cult prostitutes) who remained in the days of his father Asa, Jehoshaphat expelled from the land. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>Now there was no king in Edom; a deputy (governor) was [serving as] king. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>Jehoshaphat had [large cargo] ships of Tarshish constructed to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, because the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships,” But Jehoshaphat was unwilling <i>and</i> refused. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers [in death] and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David, and Jehoram his son became king in his place. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>Ahaziah the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel for two years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>He did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the [idolatrous] way of his father [Ahab] and of his mother [Jezebel], and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>He served Baal and worshiped him, and he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger, in accordance with everything that his father [Ahab] had done.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> The writer often refers to Ahab as “the king of Israel,” without using his name. 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