1. SYRIA AND Israel continued without war for three years.
2. In the third year Jehoshaphat king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
3. And [Ahab] king of Israel said to his servants, Do you know that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we keep silence and do not take it from the king of Syria?
4. And [Ahab] said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead to battle? Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
5. But Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Inquire first, I pray you, for the word of the Lord today.