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word of one of them, and speak encourage- 31 Now the king of Syria had commanded the
ment.” thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying,
14 And Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, what- “Fight with no one small or great, but only with
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ever the LORD says to me, that I will speak.” the king of Israel.” So it was, when the captains
15 Then he came to the king; and the king of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said,
said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to war “Surely it is the king of Israel!” Therefore they
against Ramoth Gilead, or shall we refrain?” turned aside to fight against him, and
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And he answered him, “Go and prosper, for Jehoshaphat cried out. And it happened, when
the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king!” the captains of the chariots saw that it was not
16 So the king said to him, “How many times the king of Israel, that they turned back from
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shall I make you swear that you tell me noth- pursuing him. Now a certain man drew a bow
ing but the truth in the name of the LORD?” at random, and struck the king of Israel
17 Then he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on between the joints of his armor. So he said to
the mountains, as sheep that have no shep- the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and
herd. And the LORD said, ‘These have no mas- take me out of the battle, for I am wounded.”
ter. Let each return to his house in peace.’ ” 35 The battle increased that day; and the king
18 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, was propped up in his chariot, facing the Syr-
“Did I not tell you he would not prophesy ians, and died at evening. The blood ran out
good concerning me, but evil?” from the wound onto the floor of the chariot.
19 Then Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the 36 Then, as the sun was going down, a shout
word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on went throughout the army, saying, “Every man
His throne, and all the host of heaven standing to his city, and every man to his own country!”
by, on His right hand and on His left. And the 37 So the king died, and was brought to Sa-
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LORD said, ‘Who will persuade Ahab to go up, maria. And they buried the king in Samaria.
that he may fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ So one 38 Then someone washed the chariot at a pool in
spoke in this manner, and another spoke in Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood
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that manner. Then a spirit came forward and while the harlots bathed, according to the
stood before the LORD, and said, ‘I will per- word of the LORD which He had spoken.
suade him.’ The LORD said to him, ‘In what 39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all
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way?’ So he said, ‘I will go out and be a lying that he did, the ivory house which he built and
spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And the all the cities that he built, are they not written
LORD said, ‘You shall persuade him, and also in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Is-
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prevail. Go out and do so.’ Therefore look! rael? So Ahab rested with his fathers. Then
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The LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
all these prophets of yours, and the LORD has 41 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa had become
declared disaster against you.” king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab
24 Now Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went king of Israel. Jehoshaphat was thirty-five
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near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and years old when he became king, and he
said, “Which way did the spirit from the LORD reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His
go from me to speak to you?” mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of
25 And Micaiah said, “Indeed, you shall see Shilhi. And he walked in all the ways of his
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on that day when you go into an inner cham- father Asa. He did not turn aside from them,
ber to hide!” doing what was right in the eyes of the LORD.
26 So the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, Nevertheless the high places were not taken
and return him to Amon the governor of the away, for the people offered sacrifices and
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city and to Joash the king’s son; and say, burned incense on the high places. Also
‘Thus says the king: “Put this fellow in prison, Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Is-
and feed him with bread of affliction and water rael.
of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ” 45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, the
28 But Micaiah said, “If you ever return in might that he showed, and how he made war,
peace, the LORD has not spoken by me.” And are they not written in the book of the chroni-
he said, “Take heed, all you people!” cles of the kings of Judah? And the rest of the
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29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the perverted persons, who remained in the days
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king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. And of his father Asa, he banished from the land.
the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will 47 There was then no king in Edom, only a
disguise myself and go into battle; but you put deputy of the king.
on your robes.” So the king of Israel disguised 48 Jehoshaphat made merchant ships to go to
himself and went into battle. Ophir for gold; but they never sailed, for the
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