The Divided Kingdom

and he saith, I go out, and have been a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets; and He saith, Thou dost entice, and also thou art able; go out and do so.

And now, lo, Jehovah hath put a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and Jehovah hath spoken concerning thee--evil.'

And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah draweth nigh, and smiteth Micaiah on the cheek, and saith, `Where is this--he hath passed over--the Spirit of Jehovah--from me to speak with thee?'

And Micaiah saith, `Lo, thou art seeing on that day, when thou goest in to the innermost chamber to be hidden.'

And the king of Israel saith, `Take Micaiah, and turn him back unto Amon head of the city, and unto Joash son of the king,

and thou hast said, Thus said the king, Place ye this one in the house of restraint, and cause him to eat bread of oppression, and water of oppression, till my coming in peace.'

And Micaiah saith, `If thou at all return in peace--Jehovah hath not spoken by me;' and he saith, `Hear, O peoples, all of them.'

And the king of Israel goeth up, and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, to Ramoth-Gilead.

And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat to disguise himself, and to go into battle, `And thou, put on thy garments.' And the king of Israel disguiseth himself, and goeth into battle.

And the king of Aram commanded the heads of the charioteers whom he hath--thirty and two--saying, `Ye do not fight with small or with great, but with the king of Israel by himself.'

And it cometh to pass, at the heads of the charioteers seeing Jehoshaphat, that they said, `He is only the king of Israel;' and they turn aside to him to fight, and Jehoshaphat crieth out,

and it cometh to pass, at the heads of the charioteers seeing that he is not the king of Israel, that they turn back from after him.

And a man hath drawn with a bow, in his simplicity, and smiteth the king of Israel between the joinings and the coat of mail, and he saith to his charioteer, `Turn thy hand, and take me out from the camp, for I have become sick.'

And the battle increaseth on that day, and the king hath been caused to stand in the chariot, over-against Aram, and he dieth in the evening, and the blood of the wound runneth out unto the midst of the chariot,

and he causeth the cry to pass over through the camp, at the going in of the sun, saying, `Each unto his city, and each unto his land.'

And the king dieth, and cometh into Samaria, and they bury the king in Samaria;

and one rinseth the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs lick his blood--when the armour they had washed--according to the word of Jehovah that He spake.

And the rest of the matters of Ahab, and all that he did, and the house of ivory that he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?

And Ahab lieth with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son reigneth in his stead.

And Jehoshaphat son of Asa hath reigned over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel,

Jehoshaphat is a son of thirty and five years in his reigning, and twenty and five years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother is Azubah daughter of Shilhi.

And he walketh in all the way of Asa his father, he hath not turned aside from it, to do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah; only the high places have not turned aside, yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.

And Jehoshaphat maketh peace with the king of Israel;

and the rest of the matters of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he got, and with which he fought, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

And the remnant of the whoremongers who were left in the days of Asa his father he took away out of the land;