1And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. 2And it happened in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. 3And the king of Israel said to his servants, Do you know that Ramoth-gilead is ours, and we keep quiet, and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria? 4And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses. 5And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Inquire first, please, for the word of Yehovah. 6Then 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 deliver it into the hand of the king. 7But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here another prophet of Yehovah, that we may inquire of him? 8And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may inquire of Yehovah, Micaiah the son of Imlah: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. 9Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Bring Micaiah the son of Imlah quickly. 10Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. 11And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and said, Thus says Yehovah, With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed. 12And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper; for Yehovah will deliver it into the hand of the king. 13And the messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth: let your word, please, be like the word of one of them, and speak good. 14And Micaiah said, As Yehovah lives, what Yehovah says to me, that I will speak. 15And when he had come 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 prosper; and Yehovah will deliver it into the hand of the king. 16And the king said to him, How many times shall I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yehovah? 17And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Yehovah said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace. 18And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil? 19And Micaiah said, Therefore hear the word of Yehovah: I saw Yehovah sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. 20And Yehovah said, Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said one thing; and another said another. 21And a spirit came out, and stood before Yehovah, and said, I will entice him. 22And Yehovah said to him, By what means? And he said, I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: go out, and do so. 23Now therefore, behold, Yehovah has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yehovah has spoken evil concerning you. 24Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way did the Spirit of Yehovah go from me to speak to you? 25And Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself. 26And 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; 27and 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. 28And Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yehovah has not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, you peoples, all of you. 29So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. 30And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle. 31Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight with neither small nor great, except only with the king of Israel. 32And 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. 33And it happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him. 34And a certain man drew his bow at random, 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. 35And the battle increased that day: and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening; and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot. 36And a cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his country. 37So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria. 38And 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 Yehovah which he spoke. 39Now 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, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 40So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place. 41And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. 42Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. 43And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the eyes of Yehovah: however, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. 44And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. 45Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 46And the remnant of the male cult prostitutes, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land. 47And there was no king in Edom: a deputy was king. 48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they did not go; for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber. 49Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with your servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not. 50And 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 place. 51Ahaziah 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. 52And he did what was evil in the sight of Yehovah, 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, by which he made Israel sin. 53And he served Baal, and bowed down to him, and provoked to anger Yehovah, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.