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And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Moreover, Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Please inquire first for the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle or shall I refrain? And they said, Go up, for the Lord will give <i>it</i> into the hand of the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not yet a prophet of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> here that we may inquire of him? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. <i>He is</i> Micaiah son of Imlah. But Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Then the king of Israel called an officer and said, Bring quickly Micaiah son of Imlah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in <i>their</i> robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, With these you will gore the Arameans until they are consumed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>All the prophets were prophesying thus, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead and prosper, for the L<font size="1">ORD</font> will give <i>it</i> into the hand of the king.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Micaiah Predicts Defeat</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Then the messenger who went to summon Micaiah spoke to him saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets are uniformly favorable to the king. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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.<br><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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 size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Defeat and Death of Ahab</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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 size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>The New Rulers</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/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></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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