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.
36. When the sun set, a shout spread throughout the camp: "Retreat to your towns! Retreat to your land!"
37. Once the king had died, people came from Samaria and buried the king there.
38. They cleaned the chariot at the pool of Samaria. The dogs licked up the king’s blood and the prostitutes bathed in it, just as the Lord had spoken.
39. The rest of Ahab’s deeds and all that he did—including the ivory palace he built and all the towns he constructed—aren’t they written in the official records of Israel’s kings?
40. Ahab lay down with his ancestors. His son Ahaziah succeeded him as king.
41. Jehoshaphat, Asa’s son, became king over Judah in the fourth year of Israel’s King Ahab.