Thematic Bible
1 Kings 22:1 (show verse)
Three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.
1 Kings 22:2 (show verse)
1 Kings 22:3 (show verse)
Now the king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we are still doing nothing to take it out of the hand of the king of Aram?”
1 Kings 22:4 (show verse)
And he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
1 Kings 22:5 (show verse)
Moreover, Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for the word of the Lord.”
1 Kings 22:6 (show verse)
Then the 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.”
1 Kings 22:7 (show verse)
But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not yet a prophet of the Lord here that we may inquire of him?”
1 Kings 22:8 (show verse)
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.”
1 Kings 22:9 (show verse)
Then the king of Israel called an officer and said, “Bring quickly Micaiah son of Imlah.”
1 Kings 22:10 (show verse)
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 all the prophets were prophesying before them.
1 Kings 22:11 (show verse)
Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are consumed.’”
1 Kings 22:12 (show verse)
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.”
1 Kings 22:13 (show verse)
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.”
1 Kings 22:14 (show verse)
But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I shall speak.”
1 Kings 22:15 (show verse)
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 answered him, “Go up and succeed, and the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”
1 Kings 22:16 (show verse)
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?”
1 Kings 22:17 (show verse)
So he said,
“I saw all Israel
Scattered on the mountains,
Like sheep which have no shepherd.
And the Lord said, ‘These have no master.
Let each of them return to his house in peace.’”
“I saw all Israel
Scattered on the mountains,
And the Lord said, ‘These have no master.
Let each of them return to his house in peace.’”
1 Kings 22:18 (show verse)
Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
1 Kings 22:19 (show verse)
1 Kings 22:20 (show verse)
The Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said this while another said that.
1 Kings 22:21 (show verse)
Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will entice him.’
1 Kings 22:22 (show verse)
The Lord said to him, ‘How?’ And he said, ‘I will go out and be 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.’
1 Kings 22:23 (show verse)
Now therefore, behold, the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has proclaimed disaster against you.”
1 Kings 22:24 (show verse)
Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord pass from me to speak to you?”
1 Kings 22:25 (show verse)
Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day when you enter an inner room to hide yourself.”
1 Kings 22:26 (show verse)
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;
1 Kings 22:27 (show verse)
and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this man in prison and feed him sparingly with bread and water until I return safely.”’”
1 Kings 22:28 (show verse)
Micaiah said, “If you indeed return safely the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Listen, all you people.”
1 Kings 22:29 (show verse)
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead.
1 Kings 22:30 (show verse)
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I 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.
1 Kings 22:31 (show verse)
Now the 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.”
1 Kings 22:32 (show verse)
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.
1 Kings 22:33 (show verse)
When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
1 Kings 22:34 (show verse)
Now a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and take me out of the fight; for I am severely wounded.”
1 Kings 22:35 (show verse)
The battle raged 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.
1 Kings 22:36 (show verse)
1 Kings 22:37 (show verse)
So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria.
1 Kings 22:38 (show verse)
They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots bathed themselves there), according to the word of the Lord which He spoke.
1 Kings 22:39 (show verse)
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did and the 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?
1 Kings 22:40 (show verse)
So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.
1 Kings 22:41 (show verse)
1 Kings 22:42 (show verse)
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.
1 Kings 22:43 (show verse)
1 Kings 22:44 (show verse)
1 Kings 22:45 (show verse)
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might which he showed and how he warred, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
1 Kings 22:46 (show verse)
The remnant of the sodomites who remained in the days of his father Asa, he expelled from the land.
1 Kings 22:47 (show verse)
Now there was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.
1 Kings 22:48 (show verse)
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
1 Kings 22:49 (show verse)
Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat was not willing.
1 Kings 22:50 (show verse)
1 Kings 22:51 (show verse)
Ahaziah the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
1 Kings 22:52 (show verse)
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 caused Israel to sin.