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1_Kings
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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 Ramoth-gilead? 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, Inquire,
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 Ramoth-gilead 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 inquire 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 inquire 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
Ramoth-gilead, 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 Ramoth-gilead 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 Ramoth-gilead? 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 Ramoth-gilead.
[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
Ezion-geber.
[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.
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