1. They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
2. In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
3. The king of Israel said to his servants, “You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”
4. He said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?”Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
5. Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for the Lord’s word.”
6. Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?”They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
7. But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire of him?”
8. The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.”Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”