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Chapter 22
- 22:1
- And they continued three years
without war between Syria and Israel.
- 22:2
- And it came to pass in the third
year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of
Israel.
- 22:3
- 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?
- 22:4
- And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt
thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the
king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses
as thy horses.
- 22:5
- And Jehoshaphat said unto the king
of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
- 22:6
- Then the king of Israel gathered
the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them,
Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And
they said, Go up; for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the
king.
- 22:7
- And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not
here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
- 22:8
- And the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom
we may enquire 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.
- 22:9
- Then the king of Israel called an
officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
- 22:10
- 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.
- 22:11
- 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.
- 22:12
- And all the prophets prophesied
so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall
deliver it into the king's hand.
- 22:13
- 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.
- 22:14
- And Micaiah said, As the LORD
liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.
- 22:15
- So he came to the king. And the
king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead 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.
- 22:16
- 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?
- 22:17
- 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.
- 22:18
- And the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good
concerning me, but evil?
- 22:19
- 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.
- 22:20
- And the LORD said, Who shall
persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one
said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
- 22:21
- And there came forth a spirit, and
stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
- 22:22
- 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 persude him,
and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
- 22:23
- 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.
- 22:24
- 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?
- 22:25
- And Micaiah said, Behold, thou
shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to
hide thyself.
- 22:26
- 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;
- 22:27
- 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.
- 22:28
- 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.
- 22:29
- So the king of Israel and
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.
- 22:30
- 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.
- 22:31
- 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.
- 22:32
- 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.
- 22:33
- 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.
- 22:34
- 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.
- 22:35
- 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.
- 22:36
- 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.
- 22:37
- So the king died, and was brought
to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
- 22:38
- 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.
- 22:39
- 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?
- 22:40
- So Ahab slept with his fathers;
and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
- 22:41
- And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa
began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
- 22:42
- 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.
- 22:43
- 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.
- 22:44
- And Jehoshaphat made peace with
the king of Israel.
- 22:45
- 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?
- 22:46
- And the remnant of the sodomites,
which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
- 22:47
- There was then no king in Edom: a
deputy was king.
- 22:48
- Jehoshaphat made ships of
Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships
were broken at Eziongeber.
- 22:49
- Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab
unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships.
But Jehoshaphat would not.
- 22:50
- 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.
- 22:51
- 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.
- 22:52
- 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:
- 22:53
- 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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