26. Then King Ahab ordered one of his officers, “Arrest Micaiah and take him to Amon, the governor of the city, and to Prince Joash.
27. Tell them to throw him in prison and to put him on bread and water until I return safely.”
28. “If you return safely,” Micaiah exclaimed, “then the Lord has not spoken through me!” And he added, “Listen, everyone, to what I have said!”
29. Then King Ahab of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah went to attack the city of Ramoth in Gilead.
30. Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “As we go into battle, I will disguise myself, but you wear your royal garments.” So the king of Israel went into battle in disguise.
31. The king of Syria had ordered his 32 chariot commanders to attack no one else except the king of Israel.
32. So when they saw King Jehoshaphat, they all thought that he was the king of Israel, and they turned to attack him. But when he cried out,
33. they realized that he was not the king of Israel, and they stopped their attack.
34. By chance, however, a Syrian soldier shot an arrow which struck King Ahab between the joints of his armour. “I'm wounded!” he cried out to his chariot driver. “Turn round and pull out of the battle!”
35. While the battle raged on, King Ahab remained propped up in his chariot, facing the Syrians. The blood from his wound ran down and covered the bottom of the chariot, and at evening he died.
36. Near sunset the order went out through the Israelite ranks: “Every man go back to his own country and city!”
37. So died King Ahab. His body was taken to Samaria and buried.
38. His chariot was cleaned up at the pool of Samaria, where dogs licked up his blood and prostitutes washed themselves, as the Lord had said would happen.
39. Everything else that King Ahab did, including an account of his palace decorated with ivory and all the cities he built, is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.