1 Kings 22:1 WEB: 


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1 Kings 22:1: 
They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.

1 Kings 22:2: 
It happened in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.

1 Kings 22:3: 
The king of Israel said to his servants, "You know that Ramoth-gilead is ours, and we are still, and don't take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?"

1 Kings 22:4: 
He said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.

1 Kings 22:5: 
Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Please inquire first for the word of Yahweh.

1 Kings 22:6: 
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? They said, Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.

1 Kings 22:7: 
But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him?

1 Kings 22:8: 
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."

1 Kings 22:9: 
Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.

1 Kings 22:10: 
Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

1 Kings 22:11: 
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, Thus says Yahweh, With these shall you push the Syrians, until they be consumed.

1 Kings 22:12: 
All the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.

1 Kings 22:13: 
The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, See now, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth: please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak you good.

1 Kings 22:14: 
Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that will I speak.

1 Kings 22:15: 
When he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? He answered him, Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.

1 Kings 22:16: 
The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?

1 Kings 22:17: 
He said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.

1 Kings 22:18: 
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?

1 Kings 22:19: 
[Micaiah] said, Therefore hear you the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

1 Kings 22:20: 
Yahweh said, Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? One said on this manner; and another said on that manner.

1 Kings 22:21: 
There came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said, I will entice him.

1 Kings 22:22: 
Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.'

1 Kings 22:23: 
Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.

1 Kings 22:24: 
Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh from me to speak to you?

1 Kings 22:25: 
Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.

1 Kings 22:26: 
The king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

1 Kings 22:27: 
and 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.

1 Kings 22:28: 
Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me. He said, Hear, you peoples, all of you.

1 Kings 22:29: 
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.

1 Kings 22:30: 
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but put you on your robes. The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

1 Kings 22:31: 
Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.

1 Kings 22:32: 
It happened, 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.

1 Kings 22:33: 
It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.

1 Kings 22:34: 
A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor: therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am severely wounded.

1 Kings 22:35: 
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 bottom of the chariot.

1 Kings 22:36: 
There went a cry throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his country.

1 Kings 22:37: 
So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

1 Kings 22:38: 
They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood (now the prostitutes washed themselves [there]); according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke.

1 Kings 22:39: 
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 22:40: 
So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 22:41: 
Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

1 Kings 22:42: 
Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

1 Kings 22:43: 
He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

1 Kings 22:44: 
Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

1 Kings 22:45: 
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shown, and how he warred, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

1 Kings 22:46: 
The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.

1 Kings 22:47: 
There was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

1 Kings 22:48: 
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they didn't go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.

1 Kings 22:49: 
Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with your servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.

1 Kings 22:50: 
Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; Jehoram his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 22:51: 
Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.

1 Kings 22:52: 
He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, 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, in which he made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 22:53: 
He served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.