1. Now Jehoshaphat had great riches and honor, and he married into the family of Ahab.
2. At the end of some years he went down to Ahab in Samaria. And Ahab slaughtered a great amount of sheep and oxen for Jehoshaphat and those who journeyed with him and then lured him up to Ramoth Gilead.
3. And King Ahab of Israel said to King Jehoshaphat of Judah, “Will you go up with me to Ramoth Gilead?”And he responded, “I am as you are, and as your people also my people are. We will be with you in this war.”
4. And Jehoshaphat further said to the king of Israel, “Inquire today the word of the Lord on this.”
5. So the king of Israel gathered together four hundred prophets, and he inquired from them, “Should I go up to Ramoth Gilead for battle, or should I cease from this?”They said, “Go up, for God will give this to the hand of the king.”
6. But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not still here another prophet for the Lord from whom we might inquire?”
7. Then the king of Israel responded to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man from whom we can seek the Lord, but I hate him because he does not prophesy anything good for me but always disaster. He is Micaiah the son of Imlah.”And Jehoshaphat said, “May the king not speak like this.”
8. So the king of Israel called to a court eunuch and said, “Hurry and bring Micaiah the son of Imlah.”
9. And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their own thrones, clothed in their royal garments, at the threshing floor at the entrance at the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.