5And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “But first, let us inquire at the word of the LORD”. 6Then Ahab gathered his prophets together, about four hundred, and asked them, “Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I forbear?” And they said, “Go up; for the LORD shall deliver it into your hand”. 7And Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?” 8And Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one other, Micaiah, son of Imlah, by whom we might inquire of the LORD. But I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but bad”. And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so”. 9Then Ahab called an officer, and said, “Quickly bring Micaiah, son of Imlah, here”.

10And Ahab and Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, each sat on his throne, having put on their robes, on a threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them. 11And Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah, made him horns of iron. And he said, “Thus says the LORD, ‘With these shall you push the Syrians, until you have consumed them’”. 12And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper; for the LORD shall deliver it into the king's hand”.

13And the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah said to him, “Look, the words of all the other prophets declare good to the king as one; please let your word be like their word, and speak what is good”. 14And Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak”. 15So he came to the king. And the king said, “Micaiah, shall we go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall we forbear?” And he answered him, “Go, and prosper; for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king”. 16And the king (detected the sarcasm and) said to him, “How many times shall I adjure you that you tell me nothing but what is true in the name of the LORD?” 17Then Micaiah said, “I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, like sheep with no shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace’”. 18And Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but bad?”

19And he (Micaiah) said, “Hear you, 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. 20And the LORD said, ‘Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another. 21And then there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, ‘I will persuade him’. 22And the LORD asked him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go forth, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets’. And He said, ‘You shall persuade him, and prevail also; go forth, and do so.’ 23Now, therefore, be aware, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these, your prophets, and the LORD has determined disaster for you.”

24Then Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah, went near, and slapped Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak to you?” 25And Micaiah said, “Beware, you shall see in that day, when you shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself”. 26And Ahab said, “Take Micaiah 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 in peace at all, the LORD has not spoken by me”. And he said, “Listen, O people, every one of you”.

29So Ahab, king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead. 30And Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and enter the battle, but you put on your robes”. And Ahab disguised himself, and went into the battle. 31But the king of Syria had commanded his thirty-two captains who commanded his chariots, “Attack only Ahab, king of Israel; do not bother with others, either small or great, but only Ahab”. 32And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel”. And when they turned aside to fight against him, Jehoshaphat cried out. 33And when the captains of the chariots realized that it was not the Ahab, king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

34And a certain archer drew a bow at random, and struck Ahab, king of Israel between the joints of his armor. Therefore, he said to his chariot driver, “Wheel around, and get me out of the battle; for I am wounded.” 35And the battle raged that day; and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died that evening, and the blood had run out of his wound into the midst of the chariot. 36And there went a proclamation throughout the army about sunset, “Every man to his city, and every man to his own country”. 37So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; where they buried the Ahab, king. 38And they washed his chariot in the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood; as they washed his chariot and his armor; fulfilling the word that the LORD had spoken.

39Now 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? 40So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah, his son, reigned in his stead.

41And Jehoshaphat, 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, daughter of Shilhi. 43And he (Jehoshaphat) walked in all the ways of Asa, his father; not turning aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD. However, the idolatrous high places were not removed; for the people still offered and burned incense in those high places. 44And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

45Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and the might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 46And those sodomites, that had remained in the days of Asa, his father, Jehoshaphat removed from the land. 47There was then no king in Edom; a deputy governor ruled there. 48Jehoshaphat built a fleet of ships at Tarshish, to go to Ophir for gold; but they never sailed there; for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber. 49Then Ahaziah, son of Ahab, said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships”. But Jehoshaphat refused to allow it. 50And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, his father; and then Jehoram, his son, reigned in his stead.

51Ahaziah, son of Ahab, began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel. 52And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin; 53For he served and worshipped Baal, further provoking the anger of the LORD God of Israel, as his father had done.