23. So now, since the Lord has placed a lying spirit in the mouths of every one of these prophets of yours, it is the Lord who has pronounced disaster against you!"
24. Zedekiah, Chenaanah’s son, approached Micaiah and slapped him on the cheek. "Just how did the Lord’s spirit leave me to speak to you?" he asked.
25. Micaiah answered, "You will find out on the day you try to hide in an inner room."
26. "Arrest him," ordered Israel’s king, "and turn him over to Amon the city official and to Joash the king’s son.
27. Tell them, ‘The king says: Put this man in prison and feed him minimum rations of bread and water until I return safely.’"
28. "If you ever return safely," Micaiah replied, "then the Lord wasn’t speaking through me." Then he added, "Pay attention, every last one of you!"
29. So Israel’s king and Judah’s King Jehoshaphat attacked Ramoth-gilead.
30. Israel’s king said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself when we go into battle, but you should wear your royal attire." When Israel’s king had disguised himself, they entered the battle.
31. Meanwhile, Aram’s king had commanded his thirty-two chariot officers, "Don’t bother with anyone big or small. Fight only with Israel’s king."
32. As soon as the chariot officers saw Jehoshaphat, they assumed that he must be Israel’s king, so they turned to attack him. But Jehoshaphat cried out for help.
33. When the chariot officers realized that he wasn’t Israel’s king, they stopped chasing him.
34. But someone randomly shot an arrow that struck Israel’s king between the joints in his armor."Turn around and get me out of the battle," the king told his chariot driver. "I’ve been hit!"
35. While the battle raged all that day, the king stood propped up in the chariot facing the Arameans. But that evening he died after his blood had poured from his wound into the chariot.