1 Kings 22

1They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.Cross-references: 1Ki 20:34

2In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.Cross-references: 1Ki 15:24 · 1Ki 22:1 · 1Ki 22:41 · 1Ki 22:44 · 2Ki 8:18 · 2Chr 18:1 · +2 more

3The king of Israel said to his servants, “You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”Cross-references: Deut 4:43 · Josh 20:8 · Josh 21:38 · Judg 16:2 · 2Sam 19:10 · 1Ki 4:13

4He 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.”Cross-references: 2Ki 3:7 · 2Chr 18:3 · 2Chr 19:2 · Ps 139:21 · Prov 13:20 · 1Cor 15:33 · +4 more

5Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for Yahweh’s word.”Cross-references: Num 27:21 · Josh 9:14 · Judg 1:1 · Judg 20:18 · Judg 20:23 · Judg 20:29 · +14 more

6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”Cross-references: 1Ki 18:19 · 1Ki 22:15 · 1Ki 22:22 · 2Chr 18:14 · Jer 5:31 · Jer 8:10 · +9 more

7But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?”Cross-references: 2Ki 3:11 · 2Chr 18:6

8The 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.”Cross-references: Gen 37:8 · 1Ki 18:4 · 1Ki 19:10 · 1Ki 19:14 · 1Ki 20:35 · 1Ki 21:20 · +28 more

9Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, “Quickly get Micaiah the son of Imlah.”Cross-references: 1Ki 22:26 · 2Ki 9:32 · 2Chr 18:8 · Isa 39:7 · Dan 1:18

10Now 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:29 · 1Ki 22:6 · 1Ki 22:30 · 2Chr 18:9 · Esth 5:1 · Esth 6:8 · +6 more

11Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”Cross-references: Deut 33:17 · Jer 23:17 · Jer 23:25 · Jer 23:31 · Jer 27:2 · Jer 28:2 · +9 more

12All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”Cross-references: 1Ki 22:6 · 1Ki 22:32 · 2Chr 35:22

13The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”Cross-references: Ps 10:11 · Ps 11:1 · Ps 14:1 · Ps 50:21 · Isa 30:10 · Hos 7:3 · +4 more

14Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”Cross-references: Num 22:18 · Num 22:38 · Num 24:13 · 1Ki 18:10 · 1Ki 18:15 · 2Chr 18:12 · +9 more

15When he had 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.”Cross-references: Judg 10:14 · 1Ki 18:27 · 2Ki 3:13 · 2Chr 18:14 · Eccl 11:9 · Matt 26:45

16The king said to him, “How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in Yahweh’s name?”Cross-references: Josh 6:26 · 1Sam 14:24 · 2Chr 18:15 · Jer 42:3 · Matt 22:16 · Matt 26:63 · +2 more

17He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’”Cross-references: Num 27:17 · 1Sam 9:9 · 1Ki 22:34 · 2Chr 18:16 · Jer 1:11 · Jer 23:1 · +8 more

18The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”Cross-references: 1Ki 22:8 · Prov 10:24 · Prov 27:22 · Prov 29:1 · Luke 11:45

19Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.Cross-references: 2Chr 18:18 · Job 1:6 · Job 2:1 · Ps 103:20 · Isa 1:10 · Isa 6:1 · +17 more

20Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing, and another said another.Cross-references: Job 12:16 · Jer 4:10 · Ezek 14:9

21A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’Cross-references: 1Ki 22:23 · Job 1:6 · Job 2:1

22Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’Cross-references: Judg 9:23 · 1Sam 16:14 · 1Sam 18:10 · 1Sam 19:9 · 1Ki 22:20 · Job 1:8 · +16 more

23Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”Cross-references: Ex 4:21 · Ex 10:20 · Num 23:19 · Num 24:13 · Deut 2:30 · 1Ki 20:42 · +10 more

24Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”Cross-references: 1Ki 22:11 · 2Chr 18:23 · Isa 50:5 · Jer 28:10 · Jer 29:26 · Lam 3:30 · +9 more

25Micaiah said, “Behold, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.”Cross-references: Num 31:8 · 1Ki 20:30 · Isa 9:14 · Jer 23:15 · Jer 28:16 · Jer 29:21 · +4 more

26The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son.

27Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”Cross-references: Deut 16:3 · 2Chr 16:10 · 2Chr 18:25 · Ps 80:5 · Ps 102:9 · Ps 127:2 · +17 more

28Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”Cross-references: Num 16:29 · Deut 18:20 · 1Ki 18:21 · 1Ki 18:36 · 2Ki 1:10 · 2Ki 1:12 · +8 more

29So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:2 · 2Chr 18:28

30The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into the battle, but you put on your robes.” The king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle.Cross-references: 1Sam 28:8 · 2Sam 14:2 · 1Ki 14:2 · 1Ki 20:38 · 1Ki 22:10 · 2Chr 18:29 · +4 more

31Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel.”Cross-references: Gen 19:11 · 1Sam 30:2 · 1Ki 20:1 · 1Ki 20:16 · 1Ki 20:24 · 1Ki 20:33 · +2 more

32When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they came over to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out.Cross-references: Ex 14:10 · 2Chr 18:31 · Ps 50:15 · Ps 91:15 · Ps 116:1 · Ps 130:1 · +2 more

33When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:31 · Ps 76:10

34A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around, and carry me out of the battle, for I am severely wounded.”Cross-references: 1Sam 17:49 · 2Sam 15:11 · 2Ki 9:24 · 2Chr 18:30 · 2Chr 35:23 · Mic 6:13 · +1 more

35The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.Cross-references: 1Ki 20:42 · 1Ki 22:28

36A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”Cross-references: Judg 7:7 · Judg 21:24 · 1Sam 4:10 · 2Sam 19:8 · 1Ki 12:16 · 1Ki 12:24 · +3 more

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

38They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves, according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.Cross-references: Josh 23:14 · 1Ki 21:19 · Isa 44:25 · Isa 48:3 · Jer 44:21 · Zech 1:4 · +1 more

39Now 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?Cross-references: 1Ki 10:18 · 1Ki 10:22 · 1Ki 14:19 · 1Ki 15:23 · 1Ki 15:31 · 1Ki 16:5 · +7 more

40So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: Deut 31:16 · 2Sam 7:12 · 1Ki 2:10 · 1Ki 11:21 · 1Ki 14:31 · 1Ki 22:51 · +3 more

41Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:2 · 1Chr 3:10 · 2Chr 17:1 · 2Chr 20:31

42Jehoshaphat 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:21 · 1Ki 15:2 · 1Ki 15:10 · 2Ki 1:17 · 2Ki 8:16

43He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.Cross-references: Ex 32:8 · 1Sam 12:20 · 1Ki 14:23 · 1Ki 15:5 · 1Ki 15:11 · 1Ki 15:14 · +16 more

44Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:2 · 2Ki 8:18 · 2Chr 19:2 · 2Chr 21:6 · 2Cor 6:14

45Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he fought, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?Cross-references: 1Ki 11:41 · 1Ki 14:29 · 2Chr 20:34

46The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.Cross-references: Gen 19:5 · Deut 23:17 · Judg 19:22 · 1Ki 14:24 · 1Ki 15:12 · Rom 1:26 · +3 more

47There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled.Cross-references: Gen 25:23 · Gen 27:40 · Gen 36:31 · 2Sam 8:14 · 2Ki 3:9 · 2Ki 8:20 · +1 more

48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go, for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.Cross-references: Num 33:35 · 1Ki 9:26 · 1Ki 9:28 · 1Ki 10:22 · 2Chr 9:21 · 2Chr 20:21 · +7 more

49Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat would not.

50Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city. Jehoram his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: 1Ki 2:10 · 1Ki 11:43 · 1Ki 14:31 · 1Ki 15:24 · 1Ki 22:40 · 2Ki 8:16 · +2 more

51Ahaziah 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 15:25 · 1Ki 22:40 · 2Ki 1:17

52He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 12:28 · 1Ki 14:9 · 1Ki 15:26 · 1Ki 15:34 · 1Ki 16:30 · 1Ki 21:25 · +7 more

53He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so.Cross-references: Judg 2:1 · 1Ki 16:7 · 1Ki 16:30 · 1Ki 21:29 · 2Ki 1:2 · 2Ki 3:2 · +4 more