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Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>But Micaiah said, As the L<font size="1">ORD</font> lives, what the L<font size="1">ORD</font> says to me, that I shall speak. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>When he came 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 succeed, and the L<font size="1">ORD</font> will give <i>it</i> into the hand of the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Then the king said to him, How many times must I adjure you to speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>So he said,<br>         I saw all Israel<br>         Scattered on the mountains,<br>         Like sheep which have no shepherd.<br>         And the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said, These have no master.<br>         Let each of them return to his house in peace.<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-18.htm" target="_top"><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>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Micaiah said, Therefore, hear the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. I saw the L<font size="1">ORD</font> sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> 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" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Then a spirit came forward and stood before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> and said, I will entice him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> said to him, How? And he said, I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. Then He said, You are to entice <i>him</i> and also prevail. Go and do so. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Now therefore, behold, the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has proclaimed disaster against you. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, How did the Spirit of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> pass from me to speak to you? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day when you enter an inner room to hide yourself. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-26.htm" target="_top"><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 kings son; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>and say, Thus says the king, Put this man in prison and feed him sparingly with bread and water until I return safely. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Micaiah said, If you indeed return safely the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has not spoken by me. And he said, Listen, all you people. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Defeat and Death of Ahab</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself and go into the battle, but you put on your robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, Do not fight with small or great, but with the king of Israel alone. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>So when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Surely it is the king of Israel, and they turned aside to fight against him, and Jehoshaphat cried out. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-33.htm" target="_top"><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>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>Now a certain man drew his bow at 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; for I am severely wounded. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>The battle raged that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot in front of the Arameans, and died at evening, and the blood from the wound ran into the bottom of the chariot. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>Then a cry passed throughout the army close to sunset, saying, Every man to his city and every man to his country. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-37.htm" target="_top"><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" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots bathed themselves <i>there),</i> according to the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> which He spoke. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did and the ivory house 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" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son became king in his place. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>The New Rulers</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-41.htm" target="_top"><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" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>He walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-45.htm" target="_top"><b>45</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might which he showed and how he warred, 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" target="_top"><b>46</b></a></span>The remnant of the sodomites who remained in the days of his father Asa, he expelled from the land. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-47.htm" target="_top"><b>47</b></a></span>Now there was no king in Edom; a deputy was king. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-48.htm" target="_top"><b>48</b></a></span>Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-49.htm" target="_top"><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 not willing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-50.htm" target="_top"><b>50</b></a></span>And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David, and Jehoram his son became king in his place. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-51.htm" target="_top"><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 two years over Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-52.htm" target="_top"><b>52</b></a></span>He did evil in the sight of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> 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 caused Israel to sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/22-53.htm" target="_top"><b>53</b></a></span>So he served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the L<font size="1">ORD</font> God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_kings/22.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith Jehovah, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until they be consumed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_kings/22.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Sedecias the son of Chanaana made himself horns of iron, and said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou destroy it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/1_kings/22.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and he said, Thus saith Jehovah: With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have exterminated them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_kings/22.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until they be consumed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_kings/22.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou hast consumed them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_kings/22.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.'"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_kings/22.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah maketh for himself horns of iron, and saith, 'Thus said Jehovah, By these thou dost push the Aramaeans till they are consumed;'<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/unpossessed_possessions.htm">Unpossessed Possessions</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?'--1 KINGS xxii. 3. This city of Ramoth in Gilead was an important fortified place on the eastern side of the Jordan, and had, many years before the date of our text, been captured by its northern neighbours in the kingdom of Syria. A treaty had subsequently been concluded and broken a war followed thereafter, in which Ben-hadad, King of Syria, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/unpossessed_possessions.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/ahab_and_micaiah.htm">Ahab and Micaiah</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might enquire of him? 8. And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.'--1 KINGS xxii. 7,8. An ill-omened alliance had been struck up between Ahab of Israel and Jehoshaphat of Judah. The latter, who would have been much better in Jerusalem, had come down to Samaria <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/ahab_and_micaiah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_prophet_micah.htm">The Prophet Micah. </a><br></span><span class="snippet"> PRELIMINARY REMARKS. Micah signifies: "Who is like Jehovah;" and by this name, the prophet is consecrated to the incomparable God, just as Hosea was to the helping God, and Nahum to the comforting God. He prophesied, according to the inscription, under Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. We are not, however, entitled, on this account, to dissever his prophecies, and to assign particular discourses to the reign of each of these kings. On the contrary, the entire collection forms only one whole. At <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_prophet_micah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—</span><span class="citation2">Christology of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_15_jehoshaphat.htm">Jehoshaphat</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Until called to the throne at the age of thirty-five, Jehoshaphat had before him the example of good King Asa, who in nearly every crisis had done "that which was right in the eyes of the Lord." 1 Kings 15:11. During a prosperous reign of twenty-five years, Jehoshaphat sought to walk "in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside." In his efforts to rule wisely, Jehoshaphat endeavored to persuade his subjects to take a firm stand against idolatrous practices. Many of the people in his realm <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_15_jehoshaphat.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_xxi_the_poetical_books.htm">The Poetical Books (Including Also Ecclesiastes and Canticles). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. The Hebrews reckon but three books as poetical, namely: Job, Psalms, and Proverbs, which are distinguished from the rest by a stricter rhythm--the rhythm not of feet, but of clauses (see below, No. 3)--and a peculiar system of accentuation. It is obvious to every reader that the poetry of the Old Testament, in the usual sense of the word, is not restricted to these three books. But they are called poetical in a special and technical sense. In any natural classification of the books of the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_xxi_the_poetical_books.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">E. P. Barrows—</span><span class="citation2">Companion to the Bible</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_7/chapter_ithe_assyrian_revival_and.htm">The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Assur-nazir-pal (885-860) and Shalmaneser III. (860-825)--The kingdom of Urartu and its conquering princes: Menuas and Argistis. Assyria was the first to reappear on the scene of action. Less hampered by an ancient past than Egypt and Chaldaea, she was the sooner able to recover her strength after any disastrous crisis, and to assume again the offensive along the whole of her frontier line. Image Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a bas-relief at Koyunjik of the time of Sennacherib. The initial cut, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_7/chapter_ithe_assyrian_revival_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">G. Maspero—</span><span class="citation2">History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 7</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_17_use_to_be.htm">Use to be Made of the Doctrine of Providence. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Sections. 1. Summary of the doctrine of Divine Providence. 1. It embraces the future and the past. 2. It works by means, without means, and against means. 3. Mankind, and particularly the Church, the object of special care. 4. The mode of administration usually secret, but always just. This last point more fully considered. 2. The profane denial that the world is governed by the secret counsel of God, refuted by passages of Scripture. Salutary counsel. 3. This doctrine, as to the secret counsel of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_17_use_to_be.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Calvin—</span><span class="citation2">The Institutes of the Christian Religion</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_xvi_the_shepherd_of.htm">The Shepherd of Our Souls. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"I am the good Shepherd: the good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep."--John x. 11. Our Lord here appropriates to Himself the title under which He had been foretold by the Prophets. "David My servant shall be king over them," says Almighty God by the mouth of Ezekiel: "and they all shall have one Shepherd." And in the book of Zechariah, "Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the man that is My fellow, saith the Lord of Hosts; smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered." <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_xvi_the_shepherd_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Newman—</span><span class="citation2">Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_9_of_councils_and.htm">Of Councils and their Authority. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. The true nature of Councils. 2. Whence the authority of Councils is derived. What meant by assembling in the name of Christ. 3. Objection, that no truth remains in the Church if it be not in Pastors and Councils. Answer, showing by passages from the Old Testament that Pastors were often devoid of the spirit of knowledge and truth. 4. Passages from the New Testament showing that our times were to be subject to the same evil. This confirmed by the example of almost all ages. 5. All not Pastors who <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_9_of_councils_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Calvin—</span><span class="citation2">The Institutes of the Christian Religion</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/section_iii_that_the_employing.htm">That the Employing Of, and Associating with the Malignant Party, According as is Contained in the Public Resolutions, is Sinful and Unlawful. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">That The Employing Of, And Associating With The Malignant Party, According As Is Contained In The Public Resolutions, Is Sinful And Unlawful. If there be in the land a malignant party of power and policy, and the exceptions contained in the Act of Levy do comprehend but few of that party, then there need be no more difficulty to prove, that the present public resolutions and proceedings do import an association and conjunction with a malignant party, than to gather a conclusion from clear premises. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/section_iii_that_the_employing.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/of_passages_from_the_holy.htm">Of Passages from the Holy Scriptures, and from the Apocrypha, which are Quoted, or Incidentally Illustrated, in the Institutes. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">TO THE AUTHORS QUOTED IN THE INSTITUTES PREFATORY ADDRESS TO HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY, THE MOST MIGHTY AND ILLUSTRIOUS MONARCH, FRANCIS, KING OF THE FRENCH, HIS SOVEREIGN; [1] JOHN CALVIN PRAYS PEACE AND SALVATION IN CHRIST. [2] Sire,--When I first engaged in this work, nothing was farther from my thoughts than to write what should afterwards be presented to your Majesty. My intention was only to furnish a kind of rudiments, by which those who feel some interest in religion might be trained to <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/of_passages_from_the_holy.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Calvin—</span><span class="citation2">The Institutes of the Christian Religion</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_kings/22-11.htm">1 Kings 22:11 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_kings/22-11.htm">1 Kings 22:11 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_kings/22-11.htm">1 Kings 22:11 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_kings/22-11.htm">1 Kings 22:11 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_kings/22-11.htm">1 Kings 22:11 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_kings/22-11.htm">1 Kings 22:11 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/1_kings/22-11.htm">1 Kings 22:11 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_kings/22-10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Kings 22:10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Kings 22:10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_kings/22-12.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Kings 22:12"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Kings 22:12" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/1_kings/22-11.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>