022:013 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, See now,
the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth:
please let your word be like the word of one of them,
and speak you good.
022:014 Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me,
that will I speak.
022:015 When he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah,
shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?
He answered him, Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver
it into the hand of the king.
022:016 The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you
speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?
022:017 He said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep
that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master;
let them return every man to his house in peace.
022:018 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I tell you
that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?
022:019 [Micaiah] said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh: I saw
Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven
standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
022:020 Yahweh said, 'Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up
and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One said on this manner;
and another said on that manner.
022:021 There came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said,
'I will entice him.'
022:022 Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go forth,
and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.'
He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also:
go forth, and do so.'
022:023 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in
the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken
evil concerning you."
022:024 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah
on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh
from me to speak to you?
022:025 Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you
shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.
022:026 The king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back
to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
022:027 and say, Thus says 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.
022:028 Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not
spoken by me. He said, Hear, you peoples, all of you.
022:029 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went
up to Ramoth Gilead.
022:030 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself,
and go into the battle; but put you on your robes.
The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
022:031 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains
of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great,
save only with the king of Israel.
022:032 It happened, 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.
022:033 It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was
not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
022:034 A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck
the king of Israel between the joints of the armor:
therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn your hand,
and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded.
022:035 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 bottom of the chariot.
022:036 There went a cry throughout the army about the going down
of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man
to his country.
022:037 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried
the king in Samaria.
022:038 They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked
up his blood (now the prostitutes washed themselves [there]);
according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke.
022:039 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did,
and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that
he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel?
022:040 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned
in his place.
022:041 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth
year of Ahab king of Israel.
022:042 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem.
His mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
022:043 He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside
from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh:
however the high places were not taken away; the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
022:044 Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
022:045 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that
he shown, and how he warred, aren't they written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
022:046 The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his
father Asa, he put away out of the land.
022:047 There was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
022:048 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold:
but they didn't go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.
022:049 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants
go with your servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
022:050 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David his father; Jehoram his son
reigned in his place.
022:051 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria
in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
and he reigned two years over Israel.
022:052 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, 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, in which he made
Israel to sin.
022:053 He served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger Yahweh,
the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.