2 Chronicles 18

¹ And Jehoshaphat has riches and honor in abundance, and joins affinity to Ahab, ² and goes down at the end of [certain] years unto Ahab to Samaria, and Ahab sacrifices for him sheep and oxen in abundance, and for the people who [are] with him, and persuades him to go up unto Ramoth-Gilead. ³ And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "Do you go with me [to] Ramoth-Gilead?" And he said to him, "As I - so you, and as your people - my people, even with you in battle." ⁴ And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, "Seek, I pray you, this day, the word of Yahweh." ⁵ And the king of Israel gathers the prophets, four hundred men, and said unto them, "Do we go unto Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or do I forbear?" And they say, "Go up, and Elohim does give [it] into the hand of the king." ⁶ And Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not here a prophet of Yahweh still, and we seek from him?" ⁷ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, "Still - one man to seek Yahweh from him, and I - I have hated him, for he is not prophesying concerning me of good, but all his days of evil, he [is] Micaiah son of Imlah"; and Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so." ⁸ And the king of Israel calls unto a certain officer, and said, "Hasten Micaiah son of Imlah." ⁹ And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah are sitting, each on his throne, clothed with garments, and they are sitting in a threshing-floor at the opening of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets are prophesying before them. ¹⁰ And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah makes for himself horns of iron, and said, "Thus said Yahweh, ¹¹ With these you do push Aram till you have consumed them." And all the prophets are prophesying so, saying, "Go up [to] Ramath-Gilead and prosper, and Yahweh has given [it] into the hand of the king." ¹² And the messenger who has gone to call for Micaiah has spoken unto him, saying, "Lo, the words of the prophets - one mouth - [are] good towards the king, and let, I pray you, your word be like one of theirs: and you have spoken good." ¹³ And Micaiah said "Yahweh lives, surely that which my Elohim said, it I speak." ¹⁴ And he comes in unto the king, and the king said unto him, "Micaiah, do we go unto Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or do I forbear?" And he said, "Go you up, and prosper, and they are given into your hand." ¹⁵ And the king said unto him, "How many times am I adjuring you, that you speak unto me only truth in the name of Yahweh?" ¹⁶ And he said, "I have seen all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd, and Yahweh said, There are no masters to these, they turn back each to his house in peace." ¹⁷ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, "Did I not say unto you, He does not prophesy concerning me good, but rather of evil?" ¹⁸ And he said, "Therefore, hear you a word of Yahweh: I have seen Yahweh sitting on His throne, and all the host of the heavens standing on His right and His left; ¹⁹ and Yahweh said, Who does entice Ahab king of Israel, and he does go up and fall in Ramoth-Gilead? And this speaker said thus, and that speaker thus. ²⁰ And go out does the spirit, and stand before Yahweh, and said, I do entice him; and Yahweh said unto him, With what? ²¹ and he said, I go out, and have become a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets. And He said, You do entice, and also, you are able; go out and do so. ²² And, now, lo, Yahweh has put a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of these your prophets, and Yahweh has spoken concerning you - evil." ²³ And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah comes nigh, and smites Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Where [is] this - the way the Spirit of Yahweh passed over from me to speak with you?" ²⁴ And Micaiah said, "Lo, you do see in that day, that you do enter into the innermost chamber to be hidden." ²⁵ And the king of Israel said, "Take you Micaiah, and turn him back unto Amon head of the city, and unto Joash son of the king, ²⁶ and you have said, Thus said the king, Put you this [one] in the house of restraint, and cause him to eat bread of oppression, and water of oppression, till my return in peace." ²⁷ And Micaiah said, "If you do certainly return in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me"; and he said, "Hear you, O peoples, all of them!" ²⁸ And the king of Israel goes up, and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, unto Ramoth-Gilead; ²⁹ and the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat to disguise himself, and to go into battle, "And you, put on your garments." And the king of Israel disguises himself, and they go into battle. ³⁰ And the king of Aram has commanded the heads of the charioteers whom he has, saying, "You do not fight with small or with great, except with the king of Israel by himself." ³¹ And it comes to pass at the heads of the charioteers seeing Jehoshaphat, that they have said, "The king of Israel he is", and they turn round against him to fight, and Jehoshaphat cries out, and Yahweh has helped him, and Elohim entices them from him, ³² yea, it comes to pass, at the heads of the charioteers seeing that it has not been the king of Israel - they turn back from after him. ³³ And a man has drawn with a bow, in his simplicity, and smites the king of Israel between the joinings and the coat of mail, and he said to the charioteer, "Turn your hand, and you have brought me out of the camp, for I have become sick." ³⁴ And the battle increases on that day, and the king of Israel has been stayed up in the chariot over-against Aram till the evening, and he dies at the time of the going in of the sun.