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but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.”</span></p><p><span class="text 1Kgs-22-8">And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say such things!”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then the king of Israel called an officer and said, “Bring Micaiah the son of Imlah quickly!”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, having put on <i>their</i> robes, sat each on his throne, at a threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made horns of iron for himself; and he said, “Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>: ‘With these you shall gore the Syrians until they are destroyed.’ ” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead and prosper, for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> will deliver <i>it</i> into the king’s hand.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “Now listen, the words of the prophets with one accord encourage the king. Please, let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak encouragement.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Micaiah said, “<i>As</i> the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> lives, whatever the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> says to me, that I will speak.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then he came to the king; and the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall we refrain?”</span></p><p><span class="text 1Kgs-22-15">And he answered him, “Go and prosper, for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> will deliver <i>it</i> into the hand of the king!”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So the king said to him, “How many times shall I make you swear that you tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>?”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> said, ‘These have no master. Let each return to his house in peace.’ ”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then <i>Micaiah</i> said, “Therefore hear the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>: I saw the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by, on His right hand and on His left. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> said, ‘Who will persuade Ahab to go up, that he may fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ So one spoke in this manner, and another spoke in that manner. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then a spirit came forward and stood before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, and said, ‘I will persuade him.’ </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> said to him, ‘In what way?’ So he said, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> said, ‘You shall persuade <i>him,</i> and also prevail. Go out and do so.’ </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Therefore look! The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has declared disaster against you.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the spirit from the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> go from me to speak to you?”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Micaiah said, “Indeed, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide!”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>So 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> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and say, ‘Thus says the king: “Put this <i>fellow</i> in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But Micaiah said, “If you ever return in peace, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Take heed, all you people!”</span></p> <h3> Ahab Dies in Battle</span></h3><p><span class="text 1Kgs-22-29"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle; but you put on your robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Fight with no one small or great, but only with the king of Israel.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>So it was, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, “Surely it <i>is</i> the king of Israel!” Therefore they turned aside to fight against him, and Jehoshaphat cried out. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And it happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it <i>was</i> not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Now a <i>certain</i> man drew a bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of his armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and take me out of the battle, for I am wounded.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The battle increased that day; and the king was propped up in his chariot, facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out from the wound onto the floor of the chariot. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Then, as the sun was going down, a shout went throughout the army, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his own country!”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Then <i>someone</i> washed the chariot at a pool in Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood while <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>the harlots bathed, according to the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> which He had spoken.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, the ivory house which he built and all the cities that he built, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>So Ahab <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>rested with his fathers. Then Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.</span></p> <h3> Jehoshaphat Reigns in Judah</span></h3><p><span class="text 1Kgs-22-41"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Jehoshaphat the son of Asa had become king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Jehoshaphat <i>was</i> thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name <i>was</i> Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And he walked in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them, doing <i>what was</i> right in the eyes of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>. Nevertheless the high places were not taken away, <i>for</i> the people offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Also Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, the might that he showed, and how he made war, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>And the rest of the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>perverted persons, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he banished from the land. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span><i>There was</i> then no king in Edom, only a deputy of the king.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>Jehoshaphat made <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>merchant ships to go to Ophir for gold; but they never sailed, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion Geber. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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 would not.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>And Jehoshaphat <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David his father. Then Jehoram his son reigned in his place.</span></p> <h3> Ahaziah Reigns in Israel</span></h3><p><span class="text 1Kgs-22-51"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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 reigned two years over Israel. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>He did evil in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, 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 had made Israel sin; </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/22-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>for he served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> God of Israel to anger, according<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span> to all that his father had done.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-9487a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 22:6">1 Kings 22:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>The false prophets</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-9488b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 22:7">1 Kings 22:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>him</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-9519c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 22:38">1 Kings 22:38</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Tg., Syr. <i>they washed his armor</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-9521d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 22:40">1 Kings 22:40</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Died and joined his ancestors</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-9527e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 22:46">1 Kings 22:46</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>qadesh,</i> one practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-9529f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 22:48">1 Kings 22:48</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>ships of Tarshish</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-9531g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 22:50">1 Kings 22:50</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Died and joined his ancestors</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-9534h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Kings 22:53">1 Kings 22:53</span> <span class='footnote-text'>In the same way that</span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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