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And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel .
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And it came to pass in the third year ,
that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel .
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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 ?
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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 .
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And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel ,
Enquire ,
I pray thee ,
at the word of the LORD to day .
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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 .
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And Jehoshaphat said ,
Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides ,
that we might enquire of him ?
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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 .
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Then the king of Israel called an officer ,
and said ,
Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah .
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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 .
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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 .
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And all the prophets prophesied so ,
saying ,
Go up to Ramothgilead ,
and prosper :
for the LORD shall deliver it into the king '
s hand .
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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 .
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And Micaiah said ,
As the LORD liveth ,
what the LORD saith unto me ,
that will I speak .
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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 .
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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 ?
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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 .
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And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat ,
Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me ,
but evil ?
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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 .
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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 .
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And there came forth a spirit ,
and stood before the LORD ,
and said ,
I will persuade him .
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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 persuade him ,
and prevail also :
go forth ,
and do so .
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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 .
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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 ?
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And Micaiah said ,
Behold ,
thou shalt see in that day ,
when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself .
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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 ;
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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 .
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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 .
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So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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So the king died ,
and was brought to Samaria ;
and they buried the king in Samaria .
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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 .
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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 ?
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So Ahab slept with his fathers ;
and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead .
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And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel .
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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 .
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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 .
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And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel .
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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 ?
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And the remnant of the sodomites ,
which remained in the days of his father Asa ,
he took out of the land .
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There was then no king in Edom :
a deputy was king .
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Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold :
but they went not ;
for the ships were broken at Eziongeber .
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Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat ,
Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships .
But Jehoshaphat would not .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 :
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For he served Baal ,
and worshipped him ,
and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel ,
according to all that his father had done .