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Jehoshaphat's Alliance with Ahab and the Battle at Ramoth-gilead

2 Chronicles 18:1-27

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Chapter 18
1 Jehoshaphat had wealth and high status in abundance, and he allied himself in marriage to Ahab. 2 At the end of years, he went down to Ahab at Samaria. Ahab sacrificed sheep and cattle in abundance for him and for the people who were with him, and he persuaded him to go up to Ramoth-gilead. 3 Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "Go with me to Ramoth-gilead." He said to him, "Like me, like you; like your people, my people; and your people with me in war." 4 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please seek the word of the LORD today." 5 And the king of Israel gathered the prophets—four hundred men—and said to them, "Shall I go to Ramoth-gilead to war, or shall I refrain?" And they said, "Go up, for the God will give it into the hand of the king." 6 And Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not here a prophet of the LORD anymore, that we might seek from him?" 7 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom to seek the LORD, but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good over me, for all his days evil—he is Micaiah son of Imlah.” And Jehoshaphat said to the king, “May the king not say so.” 8 And the king of Israel called to one eunuch and said, "Hurry, Micaiah son of Imlah." 9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting, each man on his throne, clothed in their garments. And they sat at the threshing floor at the opening of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them. 10 And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made horns of iron for him and said, "This is what the LORD says: With these you will gore the Arameans until they are consumed." 11 And all the prophets were prophesying in this way, saying, "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and succeed, and the LORD will give it into the hand of the king." 12 And the messenger who had gone to meet Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "Look, the words of the prophets are unanimously good toward the king, and may your word now be like one of them, and speak good." 13 And Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what my God says, that I will speak." 14 And when he came to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to war, or shall I refrain?" And he said, "Go up and succeed, and they will give it into your hand." 15 And the king said to him, "How many times must I make you swear that you will not speak to me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?" 16 And he said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd." And the LORD said, "Not masters, these; they will return, every man to his house in peace." 17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not say to you, 'He will not prophesy good concerning me, but only evil'?" 18 And he said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD. I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right and on his left." 19 And the LORD said, "Who will entice Ahab king of Israel so that he goes up and falls at Ramoth-Gilead?" And one said this, and another said that. 20 And the spirit went out and stood before the LORD and said, "I will entice." And the LORD said to him, "With what?" 21 And he said, "I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets." And the LORD said, "You will entice and also prevail; go out and do so." 22 And now look, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these prophets of yours, and the LORD has spoken evil against you. 23 And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah approached and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "Which way did the Spirit of the LORD pass from me to speak to you?" 24 And Micaiah said, "You saw on that day when you went from chamber to chamber to hide." 25 And the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the ruler of the city and to Joash the king's son." 26 And you shall say, "This is what the king says: 'Put this one in the house of the prison and feed him bread of oppression and water of oppression until my return in peace.'" 27 And Micaiah said, "If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken through me." And he said, "Hear, all you peoples."