1 Kings 22 (New American Standard)

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Ahab's Third Campaign against Aram

1 Three ^ayears passed without war between Aram and Israel. 2 ¹In the third year ²Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. 3 Now the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that ³Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we ^bare still doing nothing to take it out of the hand of the king of Aram ?" 4 And he said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead ?" And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "⁴I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." 5 Moreover, Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please inquire ^cfirst for the word of the LORD." 6 Then ⁵the 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 refrain ?" And they said, "Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king." 7 But ⁶Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not yet a prophet of the LORD here that we may inquire of him?" 8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. He is Micaiah son of Imlah." But Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so." 9 Then the king of Israel called an officer and said, "^dBring quickly Micaiah son of Imlah." 10 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria ; and ⁷all the prophets were prophesying before them. 11 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made ⁸horns of iron for himself and said, "Thus says the LORD, '⁹With these you will gore the Arameans until they are consumed.' " 12 All the prophets were prophesying thus, saying, "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and prosper, for the LORD will give it into the hand of the king."

Micaiah Predicts Defeat

13 Then the messenger who went to summon Micaiah spoke to him saying, "Behold now, the words of the prophets are uniformly favorable to the king. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably." 14 But Micaiah said, "¹⁰As the LORD lives, what ¹¹the LORD says to me, that I shall speak." 15 When he came to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we refrain ?" And he ^eanswered him, "¹²Go up and succeed, and the LORD will give it into the hand of the king." 16 Then the king said to him, "How many times must I adjure you to speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD ?" 17 So he said, "I saw all Israel Scattered on the mountains, ¹³Like sheep which have no shepherd. And the LORD said, 'These have no master. Let each of them return to his house in peace.' " 18 Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "¹⁴Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil ?" 19 ^fMicaiah said, "Therefore, hear the word of the LORD. ¹⁵I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and ¹⁶all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left. 20 "The LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead ?' And one said this while another said that. 21 "Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD and said, 'I will entice him.' 22 "The LORD said to him, 'How ?' And he said, 'I will go out and ¹⁷be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' Then He said, 'You are to entice him and also prevail. Go and do so.' 23 "Now therefore, behold, ¹⁸the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets ; and the LORD has proclaimed disaster against you." 24 Then ¹⁹Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "²⁰How did the Spirit of the LORD pass from me to speak to you?" 25 Micaiah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day when you ²¹enter an inner room to hide yourself." 26 Then the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son ; 27 and say, 'Thus says the king, "²²Put this man in prison and feed him ^gsparingly with bread and water until I return safely.""' 28 Micaiah said, "²³If you indeed return safely the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "²⁴Listen, all you people."

Defeat and Death of Ahab

29 So ²⁵the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead. 30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "²⁶I will disguise myself and go into the battle, but you put on your robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle. 31 Now ²⁷the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, "Do not fight with small or great, but with the king of Israel alone." 32 So when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "Surely it is the king of Israel," and they turned aside to fight against him, and Jehoshaphat cried out. 33 When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. 34 Now a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel ^hin a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn ⁱaround and take me out of the ^jfight ; ²⁸for I am severely wounded." 35 The battle ^kraged that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot in front of the Arameans, and died at evening, and the blood from the wound ran into the bottom of the chariot. 36 ²⁹Then a cry passed throughout the army close to sunset , saying, "Every man to his city and every man to his ^lcountry." 37 So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria. 38 They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots bathed themselves there), ³⁰according to the word of the LORD which He spoke. 39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did and ³¹the ivory house which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel ? 40 So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.

The New Rulers

41 ³²Now Jehoshaphat the son of Asa became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. 43 ³³He walked in all the way of Asa his father ; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the LORD. ³⁴However, the high places were not taken away ; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places. 44 ³⁵Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel. 45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might which he showed and how he warred, are they not written ³⁶in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah ? 46 The remnant of ³⁷the sodomites who remained in the days of his father Asa, he ^mexpelled from the land. 47 Now ³⁸there was no king in Edom ; a deputy was king. 48 Jehoshaphat made ³⁹ships of Tarshish to go to ⁴⁰Ophir for gold, but ⁴¹they did not go for the ships were broken at ⁴²Ezion-geber. 49 Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships." But Jehoshaphat was not willing. 50 ⁴³And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David, and Jehoram his son became king in his place. 51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab ⁴⁴became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel. 52 He did evil in the sight of the LORD and ⁴⁵walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. 53 ⁴⁶So he served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.

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a. 1 Kings 22:1 - Lit "they sat for three years"

b. 1 Kings 22:3 - Lit "are silent so as not"

c. 1 Kings 22:5 - Lit "as the day"

d. 1 Kings 22:9 - Lit "Hasten Micaiah"

e. 1 Kings 22:15 - Lit "said to"

f. 1 Kings 22:19 - Lit "he"

g. 1 Kings 22:27 - Lit "with bread of affliction and water of affliction"

h. 1 Kings 22:34 - Lit "between the scale-armor and the breastplate"

i. 1 Kings 22:34 - Lit "your hand"

j. 1 Kings 22:34 - Lit "camp"

k. 1 Kings 22:35 - Lit "went up"

l. 1 Kings 22:36 - Lit "land"

m. 1 Kings 22:46 - Lit "consumed"

1. 1 Kings 22:2 - 2 Chr 18:2

2. 1 Kings 22:2 - 1 Kin 15:24

3. 1 Kings 22:3 - Deut 4:43; Josh 21:38; 1 Kin 4:13

4. 1 Kings 22:4 - 2 Kin 3:7

5. 1 Kings 22:6 - 1 Kin 18:19

6. 1 Kings 22:7 - 2 Kin 3:11

7. 1 Kings 22:10 - 1 Kin 22:6

8. 1 Kings 22:11 - Zech 1:18-21

9. 1 Kings 22:11 - Deut 33:17

10. 1 Kings 22:14 - 1 Kin 18:10, 15

11. 1 Kings 22:14 - Num 22:18; 24:13

12. 1 Kings 22:15 - 1 Kin 22:12

13. 1 Kings 22:17 - Num 27:17; 1 Kin 22:34-36; 2 Chr 18:16; Matt 9:36; Mark 6:34

14. 1 Kings 22:18 - 1 Kin 22:8

15. 1 Kings 22:19 - Is 6:1; Ezek 1:26-28; Dan 7:9, 10

16. 1 Kings 22:19 - Job 1:6; 2:1; Ps 103:20, 21; Dan 7:10; Matt 18:10; Heb 1:7, 14

17. 1 Kings 22:22 - Judg 9:23; 1 Sam 16:14; 18:10; 19:9; Ezek 14:9; 2 Thess 2:11

18. 1 Kings 22:23 - Ezek 14:9

19. 1 Kings 22:24 - 1 Kin 22:11; Matt 5:39; Acts 23:2, 3

20. 1 Kings 22:24 - 2 Chr 18:23

21. 1 Kings 22:25 - 1 Kin 20:30

22. 1 Kings 22:27 - 2 Chr 16:10; 18:25-27

23. 1 Kings 22:28 - Deut 18:22

24. 1 Kings 22:28 - Mic 1:2

25. 1 Kings 22:29 - 1 Kin 22:3, 4

26. 1 Kings 22:30 - 2 Chr 35:22

27. 1 Kings 22:31 - 1 Kin 20:1, 16, 24; 2 Chr 18:30

28. 1 Kings 22:34 - 2 Chr 35:23

29. 1 Kings 22:36 - 2 Kin 14:12

30. 1 Kings 22:38 - 1 Kin 21:19

31. 1 Kings 22:39 - Amos 3:15

32. 1 Kings 22:41 - 2 Chr 20:31

33. 1 Kings 22:43 - 2 Chr 17:3

34. 1 Kings 22:43 - 1 Kin 15:14; 2 Kin 12:3

35. 1 Kings 22:44 - 1 Kin 22:2; 2 Kin 8:16, 18; 2 Chr 19:2

36. 1 Kings 22:45 - 2 Chr 20:34

37. 1 Kings 22:46 - Gen 19:5; Deut 23:17; 1 Kin 14:24; 15:12; Jude 7

38. 1 Kings 22:47 - 2 Sam 8:14; 2 Kin 3:9

39. 1 Kings 22:48 - 1 Kin 10:22; 2 Chr 20:36

40. 1 Kings 22:48 - 1 Kin 9:28

41. 1 Kings 22:48 - 2 Chr 20:37

42. 1 Kings 22:48 - 1 Kin 9:26

43. 1 Kings 22:50 - 2 Chr 21:1

44. 1 Kings 22:51 - 1 Kin 22:40

45. 1 Kings 22:52 - 1 Kin 15:26; 21:25

46. 1 Kings 22:53 - Judg 2:11; 1 Kin 16:30-32

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