13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial
witnessed against him, evenagainst Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did
blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with
stones, that he died.
14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel
said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused
to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to
the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
17 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which isin Samaria: behold, he isin the
vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.
19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken
possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs
licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found
thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from
Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
22 And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of
Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked meto anger, and
made Israel to sin.
23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of
Jezreel.
24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall
the fowls of the air eat.
25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight
of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all thingsas did the Amorites,
whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put
sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I
will not bring the evil in his days: butin his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
1 And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the
king of Israel.
3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead isours, and we
bestill, andtake it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And
Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I amas thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as
thy horses.
5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to
day.
6 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 itinto the hand of the king.

7 And Jehoshaphat said, Is therenot here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire
of him?
8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There isyet 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.
9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hitherMicaiah the son of Imlah.
10 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.
11 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.
12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD
shall deliver itinto the king's hand.
13 And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the
words of the prophets declaregood unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be
like the word of one of them, and speak that which isgood.
14 And Micaiah said, Asthe LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.
15 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 itinto the hand of the king.
16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but
that which istrue in the name of the LORD?
17 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.
18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no
good concerning me, but evil?
19 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.
20 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.
21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
22 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.
23 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.
24 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?
25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner
chamber to hide thyself.
26 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;
27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellowin the prison, and feed him with bread of
affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
28 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.
29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.
30 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.
31 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.
32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said,
Surely it isthe king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried
out.
33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it wasnot the king of
Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
34 And a certainman 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.
35 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.
36 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.
37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
38 And onewashed 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.
39 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, arethey not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of
Israel.
42 Jehoshaphat wasthirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and
five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name wasAzubah the daughter of Shilhi.
43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that
which wasright 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.
44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred,
arethey not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out
of the land.
47 There wasthen no king in Edom: a deputy wasking.
48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships
were broken at Eziongeber.
49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants
in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
50 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.
51 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.
52 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:
53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel,
according to all that his father had done.