[1] Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and his son was married to
Ahab's daughter. [2] And after some years he went down to Samaria to see
Ahab. And Ahab made a feast for him and the people who were with him,
putting to death great numbers of sheep and oxen; and he got Jehoshaphat to
go with him to Ramoth-gilead. [3] For Ahab, king of Israel, said to
Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he
said, I am as you are, and my people as your people; we will be with you in
the war. [4] Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get
directions from the Lord. [5] So the king of Israel got together all the
prophets, four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead
to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for God will give it into the
hands of the king. [6] But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no other prophet of
the Lord here from whom we may get directions? [7] And the king of Israel
said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions
from the Lord, but I have no love for him, because he has never been a
prophet of good to me, but only of evil: he is Micaiah, the son of Imla.
And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. [8] Then the king of Israel
sent for one of his unsexed servants and said, Go quickly and come back
with Micaiah, the son of Imla. [9] Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat,
the king of Judah, were seated on their seats of authority, dressed in
their robes, by the doorway into Samaria; and all the prophets were acting
as prophets before them. [10] And Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, made
himself iron horns and said, The Lord says, Pushing back the Aramaeans with
these, you will put an end to them completely. [11] And all the prophets
said the same thing, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and it will go well
for you, for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king. [12] Now the
servant who had gone to get Micaiah said to him, See now, all the prophets
with one voice are saying good things to the king; so let your words be
like theirs, and say good things. [13] And Micaiah said, By the living
Lord, whatever the Lord says to me I will say. [14] When he came to the
king, the king said to him, Micaiah, are we to go to Ramoth-gilead to make
war or not? And he said, Go up, and it will go well for you; and they will
be given up into your hands. [15] And the king said to him, Have I not,
again and again, put you on your oath to say nothing to me but what is true
in the name of the Lord? [16] Then he said, I saw all Israel wandering on
the mountains like sheep without a keeper; and the Lord said, These have no
master: let them go back, every man to his house in peace. [17] And the
king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say that he would not be a
prophet of good to me, but of evil? [18] Then he said, Give ear now to the
word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, and all the
army of heaven in their places, at his right hand and at his left. [19] And
the Lord said, How may Ahab, king of Israel, be tricked into going up to
Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said one thing and one another. [20]
Then a spirit came forward and took his place before the Lord and said, I
will get him to do it by a trick. And the Lord said to him, How? [21] And
he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his
prophets. And the Lord said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out
and do so. [22] And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the
mouth of these prophets of yours; and the Lord has said evil against you.
[23] Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, came near and gave Micaiah a blow
on the side of his face, saying, Where is the spirit of the Lord whose word
is in you? [24] And Micaiah said, Truly, you will see on that day when you
go into an inner room to keep yourself safe. [25] And the king of Israel
said, Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon, the ruler of the town, and to
Joash, the king's son; [26] And say, By the king's order this man is to be
put in prison, and given prison food till I come back in peace. [27] And
Micaiah said, If you come back at all in peace, the Lord has not sent his
word by me. [28] So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah,
went up to Ramoth-gilead. [29] And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat,
I will make a change in my clothing, so that I do not seem to be the king,
and will go into the fight; but do you put on your robes. So the king of
Israel made a change in his dress, and they went to the fight. [30] Now the
king of Aram had given orders to the captains of his war-carriages, saying,
Make no attack on small or great, but only on the king of Israel. [31] So
when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, It is
the king of Israel. And turning about, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat
gave a cry, and the Lord came to his help, and God sent them away from him.
[32] Now when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the
king of Israel, they went back from going after him. [33] And a certain man
sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the
king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so
he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away
out of the army, for I am badly wounded. [34] But the fight became more
violent while the day went on; and the king of Israel was supported in his
war-carriage facing the Aramaeans till the evening; and by sundown he was
dead.

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