1. For three years there was no war between Aram and the Israelites.
2. In the third year, Judah’s King Jehoshaphat visited Israel’s king.
3. Israel’s king said to his servants, "You know, don’t you, that Ramoth-gilead is ours? But we aren’t doing anything to take it back from the king of Aram."
4. He said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me into battle at Ramoth-gilead?"Jehoshaphat said to Israel’s king, "I am with you, and my troops and my horses are united with yours.
5. But," Jehoshaphat said to Israel’s king, "first let’s see what the Lord has to say."
6. So Israel’s king gathered about four hundred prophets, and he asked them, "Should I go to war with Ramoth-gilead or not?""Attack!" the prophets answered. "The Lord will hand it over to the king."
7. But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn’t there any other prophet of the Lord whom we could ask?"
8. "There is one other man who could ask the Lord for us," Israel’s king told Jehoshaphat, "but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, only bad. His name is Micaiah, Imlah’s son.""The king shouldn’t speak like that!" Jehoshaphat said.