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1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance; and he joined affinity with Ahab. 2 After certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. Ahab killed sheep and cattle for him in abundance, and for the people who were with him, and moved him to go up with him to Ramoth Gilead. 3 Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, |Will you go with me to Ramoth Gilead?| He answered him, |I am as you are, and my people as your people. We will be with you in the war.| 4 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, |Please inquire first for the word of the LORD.| 5 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, |Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I refrain?| They said, |Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king.| 6 But Jehoshaphat said, |Isn't there here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we may inquire of him?| 7 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, |There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil. He is Micaiah the son of Imla.| Jehoshaphat said, |Do not let the king say so.| 8 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, |Get Micaiah the son of Imla quickly.| 9 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. 10 Zedekiah the son of Kenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, |Thus says the LORD, 'With these you shall push the Arameans, until they are consumed.'| 11 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, |Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.| 12 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, |Look, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Let your word therefore, please be like one of theirs, and speak good.| 13 Micaiah said, |As the LORD lives, whatever my God says to me, that I will speak.| 2 Chronicles 18:1-13, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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