I Kings 22 · מלכים א

And they continued three years without war between Aram and Yisra᾽el.

And it came to pass in the third year, that Yehoshafat the king of Yehuda came down to the king of Yisra᾽el.

And the king of Yisra᾽el said to his servants, Do you know that Ramot in Gil῾ad is ours, and we are still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Aram?

And he said to Yehoshafat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramot-gil῾ad? And Yehoshafat said to the king of Yisra᾽el, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.

And Yehoshafat said to the king of Yisra᾽el, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the Lord to day.

Then the king of Yisra᾽el gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramot-gil῾ad to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

And Yehoshafat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might inquire of him?

And the king of Yisra᾽el said to Yehoshafat, There is one other man, Mikhayahu the son of Yimla, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Yehoshafat said, Let not the king say so.

Then the king of Yisra᾽el called an officer, and said, bring quickly Mikhayahu the son of Yimla.

And the king of Yisra᾽el and Yehoshafat king of Yehuda sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a threshing floor in the entrance of the gate of Shomeron; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

And Żidqiyya the son of Kena῾ana made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus says the Lord, With these shalt thou push Aram, until thou have consumed them.

And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramot-gil῾ad, and prosper: and may the Lord deliver it into the king’s hand.

And the messenger that was gone to call Mikhayahu spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.

And Mikhayahu said, As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that will I speak.

So he came to the king. And the king said to him, Mikhayahu, shall we go against Ramot-gil῾ad to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper, and may the Lord deliver it into the hand of the king.

And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the Lord?

And he said, I saw all Yisra᾽el scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the Lord said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.

And the king of Yisra᾽el said to Yehoshafat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?

And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

And the Lord said, Who shall entice Aĥ᾽av, that he may go up and fall at Ramot-gil῾ad? And one said in this manner, and another said in that manner.

And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, with what?

And he said, I will go out, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go out, and do so.

Now therefore, behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord has spoken evil concerning thee.

But Żidqiyyahu the son of Kena῾ana went near, and smote Mikhayehu on the cheek, and said, Which way went the spirit of the Lord from me to speak to thee?

And Mikhayehu said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

And the king of Yisra᾽el said, Take Mikhayehu, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Yo᾽ash the king’s son;

and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with scant bread and with scant water, until I come in peace.

And Mikhayehu said, If thou return at all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.

So the king of Yisra᾽el and Yehoshafat the king of Yehuda went up to Ramot-gil῾ad.

And the king of Yisra᾽el said to Yehoshafat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Yisra᾽el disguised himself, and went into the battle.

But the king of Aram commanded his thirty two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Yisra᾽el.

And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Yehoshafat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Yisra᾽el. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Yehoshafat cried out.

And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Yisra᾽el, that they turned back from pursuing him.

And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Yisra᾽el between the joints of the armour: so he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn thy hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am badly wounded.

And the battle increased that day: and the king was propped up in his chariot against Aram, and died at evening: and the blood ran out of the wound into the hollow of the chariot.

And there went a cry throughout the camp about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.

So the king died, and was brought to Shomeron; and they buried the king in Shomeron.

And one washed the chariot in the pool of Shomeron; and the dogs licked up his blood; and the harlots washed there; according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.

Now the rest of the acts of Aĥ᾽av, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra᾽el?

So Aĥ᾽av slept with his fathers; and Aĥazyahu his son reigned in his stead.

And Yehoshafat the son of Asa began to reign over Yehuda in the fourth year of Aĥ᾽av king of Yisra᾽el.

Yehoshafat was thirty five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty five years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name was ῾Azuva the daughter of Shilĥi.

And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord:

nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people still offered and burnt incense in the high places.

And Yehoshafat made peace with the king of Yisra᾽el.

Now the rest of the acts of Yehoshafat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehuda?

And the remnant of the prostitutes, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.

There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

Yehoshafat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ofir for gold: but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at ῾Eżyon-gever.

Then said Aĥazyahu the son of Aĥ᾽av to Yehoshafat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Yehoshafat would not.

And Yehoshafat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Yehoram his son reigned in his stead.

Aĥazyahu the son of Aĥ᾽av began to reign over Yisra᾽el in Shomeron in the seventeenth year of Yehoshafat king of Yehuda, and reigned two years over Yisra᾽el.

And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Yorov῾am the son of Nevat, who made Yisra᾽el to sin:

for he served the Ba῾al, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the Lord God of Yisra᾽el, according to all that his father had done.