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1 And they con­tin­ued three years with­out war be­tween Syr­ia and Is­rael. 2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Je­hoshaphat the king of Ju­dah came down to the king of Is­rael. 3 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? 4 And he said unto Je­hoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to bat­tle to Ramoth­gilead? And Je­hoshaphat said to the king of Is­rael, I am as thou art, my peo­ple as thy peo­ple, my hors­es as thy hors­es. 5 And Je­hoshaphat said unto the king of Is­rael, En­quire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day. 6 Then the king of Is­rael gath­ered the prophets to­geth­er, about four hun­dred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth­gilead to bat­tle, or shall I for­bear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall de­liv­er it into the hand of the king. 7 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. And Je­hoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. 9 Then the king of Is­rael called an of­fi­cer, and said, Has­ten hither Mi­ca­iah the son of Im­lah. 10 And the king of Is­rael and Je­hoshaphat the king of Ju­dah sat each on his throne, hav­ing put on their robes, in a void place in the en­trance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets proph­e­sied be­fore them. 11 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 have con­sumed them. 12 And all the prophets proph­e­sied so, say­ing, Go up to Ramoth­gilead, and pros­per: for the LORD shall de­liv­er it into the king's hand. 13 And the mes­sen­ger that was gone to call Mi­ca­iah spake unto him, say­ing, Be­hold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good. 14 And Mi­ca­iah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak. 15 So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Mi­ca­iah, shall we go against Ramoth­gilead to bat­tle, or shall we for­bear? And he an­swered him, Go, and pros­per: for the LORD shall de­liv­er it into the hand of the king. 16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I ad­jure thee that thou tell me noth­ing but that which is true in the name of the LORD? 17 And he said, I saw all Is­rael scat­tered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shep­herd: and the LORD said, These have no mas­ter: let them re­turn ev­ery man to his house in peace. 18 And the king of Is­rael said unto Je­hoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would proph­esy no good con­cern­ing me, but evil? 19 And he said, Hear thou there­fore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sit­ting on his throne, and all the host of heav­en stand­ing by him on his right hand and on his left. 20 And the LORD said, Who shall per­suade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth­gilead? And one said on this man­ner, and an­oth­er said on that man­ner. 21 And there came forth a spir­it, and stood be­fore the LORD, and said, I will per­suade him. 22 And the LORD said unto him, Where­with? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a ly­ing spir­it in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt per­suade him, and pre­vail al­so: go forth, and do so. 23 Now there­fore, be­hold, the LORD hath put a ly­ing spir­it in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spo­ken evil con­cern­ing thee. 24 But Zedeki­ah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Mi­ca­iah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spir­it of the LORD from me to speak unto thee? 25 And Mi­ca­iah said, Be­hold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an in­ner cham­ber to hide thy­self. 26 And the king of Is­rael said, Take Mi­ca­iah, and car­ry him back unto Amon the gov­er­nor of the city, and to Joash the king's son; 27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of af­flic­tion and with wa­ter of af­flic­tion, un­til I come in peace. 28 And Mi­ca­iah said, If thou re­turn at all in peace, the LORD hath not spo­ken by me. And he said, Hear­ken, O peo­ple, ev­ery one of you. 29 So the king of Is­rael and Je­hoshaphat the king of Ju­dah went up to Ramoth­gilead. 30 And the king of Is­rael said unto Je­hoshaphat, I will dis­guise my­self, and en­ter into the bat­tle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Is­rael dis­guised him­self, and went into the bat­tle. 31 But the king of Syr­ia com­mand­ed his thir­ty and two cap­tains that had rule over his char­i­ots, say­ing, Fight nei­ther with small nor great, save only with the king of Is­rael. 32 And it came to pass, when the cap­tains of the char­i­ots saw Je­hoshaphat, that they said, Sure­ly it is the king of Is­rael. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Je­hoshaphat cried out. 33 And it came to pass, when the cap­tains of the char­i­ots per­ceived that it was not the king of Is­rael, that they turned back from pur­su­ing him. 34 And a certain man drew a bow at a ven­ture, and smote the king of Is­rael be­tween the joints of the har­ness: where­fore he said unto the driv­er of his char­i­ot, Turn thine hand, and car­ry me out of the host; for I am wound­ed. 35 And the bat­tle in­creased that day: and the king was stayed up in his char­i­ot against the Syr­i­ans, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the char­i­ot. 36 And there went a procla­ma­tion through­out the host about the go­ing down of the sun, say­ing, Ev­ery man to his city, and ev­ery man to his own coun­try. 37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria. 38 And one washed the char­i­ot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his ar­mour; ac­cord­ing unto the word of the LORD which he spake. 39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not writ­ten in the book of the chron­i­cles of the kings of Is­rael? 40 So Ahab slept with his fa­thers; and Ahazi­ah his son reigned in his stead. 41 And Je­hoshaphat the son of Asa be­gan to reign over Ju­dah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Is­rael. 42 Je­hoshaphat was thir­ty and five years old when he be­gan to reign; and he reigned twen­ty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daugh­ter of Shil­hi. 43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his fa­ther; he turned not aside from it, do­ing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nev­er­the­less the high places were not tak­en away; for the peo­ple of­fered and burnt in­cense yet in the high places. 44 And Je­hoshaphat made peace with the king of Is­rael. 45 Now the rest of the acts of Je­hoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not writ­ten in the book of the chron­i­cles of the kings of Ju­dah? 46 And the rem­nant of the sodomites, which re­mained in the days of his fa­ther Asa, he took out of the land. 47 There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king. 48 Je­hoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were bro­ken at Ezionge­ber. 49 Then said Ahazi­ah the son of Ahab unto Je­hoshaphat, Let my ser­vants go with thy ser­vants in the ships. But Je­hoshaphat would not. 50 And Je­hoshaphat slept with his fa­thers, and was buried with his fa­thers in the city of David his fa­ther: and Je­ho­ram his son reigned in his stead. 51 Ahazi­ah the son of Ahab be­gan to reign over Is­rael in Samaria the sev­en­teenth year of Je­hoshaphat king of Ju­dah, and reigned two years over Is­rael. 52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, 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 made Is­rael to sin: 53 For he served Baal, and wor­shipped him, and pro­voked to anger the LORD God of Is­rael, ac­cord­ing to all that his fa­ther had done.