# 1 Kings 22

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-kings/22

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Three years passed without war between Syria and Israel.
2. In the third year Jehoshaphat king of Judah visited the king of Israel.
3. The king of Israel said to his servants, "Don't you know Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, yet we hold back and fail to reclaim it from the king of Syria?"
4. He said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you join me to fight at Ramoth-gilead?" Jehoshaphat replied 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, "Seek Yahweh's word first."
6. The king of Israel assembled about four hundred prophets and asked them, "Should I march against Ramoth-gilead for battle, or hold back?" They replied, "March ahead, for Yahweh will hand it over to the king."
7. Jehoshaphat said, "Isn't there a prophet of Yahweh here whom we can consult?"
8. The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Yet one man remains by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil." Jehoshaphat said, "Do not let the king say so."
9. The king of Israel summoned an officer and said, "Fetch Micaiah son of Imlah quickly."
10. The king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat on their thrones, dressed in robes, in the open square at Samaria's gate entrance, while all the prophets delivered oracles before them.
11. Zedekiah son of Chenaanah fashioned iron horns and declared, "Yahweh proclaims: With these you will gore the Arameans until you annihilate them."
12. All the prophets prophesied alike, declaring, "March up to Ramoth-gilead and succeed, for Yahweh will hand it over to the king."
13. The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "Look now, all the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth; please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good."
14. Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, whatever he tells me, that I will declare."
15. When he came to the king, the king asked him, "Micaiah, should we march against Ramoth-gilead for battle, or hold back?" He replied, "March ahead and succeed—Yahweh will hand it over to the king."
16. The king said to him, "How many times must I charge you to speak only truth to me in Yahweh's name?"
17. He said, "I saw all Israel scattered across the mountains like sheep without a shepherd. Yahweh said, 'These have no master—let each return to his house in peace.'"
18. The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Didn't I tell you he would not prophesy good for me, but evil?"
19. He said, "Therefore hear Yahweh's word: I saw Yahweh seated on his throne, with the whole heavenly host standing beside him to his right and to his left."
20. Yahweh said, "Who will deceive Ahab into going up to Ramoth-Gilead and falling there?" One suggested one approach, and another suggested a different one.
21. A spirit stepped forward, stood before Yahweh, and said, "I will deceive him."
22. Yahweh said to him, "How?" He replied, "I will go out and become a false spirit in the mouths of all his prophets." Yahweh said, "You will deceive him and succeed too; go and do it."
23. He said, “I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.” And he said, “You will entice and also prevail; go out and do so.”
24. Now see, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and Yahweh has spoken calamity against you.
25. Zedekiah son of Chenaanah approached, struck Micaiah across the cheek, and said, "Which way has this spirit of Yahweh gone from me to speak to you?"
26. Micaiah said, "Look, you will see on that day when you enter an inner chamber to hide."
27. The king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah and bring him back to Amon, ruler of the city, and to Joash, son of the king."
28. Say, "Thus says the king: Put this one in the house of confinement, and feed him bread of distress and water of distress until I come in peace."
29. Micaiah said, "If ever you return safely, Yahweh has not spoken through me." He said, "Hear, all peoples!"
30. The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and enter the battle, but you wear your robes." The king of Israel disguised himself and entered the battle.
31. The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and enter the battle, but you put on your garments," and the king of Israel disguised himself and entered the battle.
32. And the king of Aram commanded the captains of his chariots, the thirty-two, saying, “Do not fight small or great, except only the king of Israel alone.”
33. When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "Surely he is the king of Israel," and turned aside against him to fight, and Jehoshaphat cried out.
34. When the captains of the chariots saw that he was not Israel's king, they turned back from behind him.
35. A certain man drew the bow to full and struck Israel's king between the joints and the breastplate. He said to his chariot driver, "Turn your hand and carry me out from the army, for I have been wounded."
36. The battle intensified that day with the king standing in his chariot facing Aram; he died at evening, and blood from the wound poured into the floor of the chariot.
37. The ringing cry passed through the camp as the sun set, saying, "Every man to his city, and every man to his land!"
38. The king died and was carried to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria.
39. They washed the chariot at the pool of Samaria, the dogs licked his blood, and the prostitutes bathed, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke.
40. The rest of Ahab's deeds, all that he accomplished, the house of ivory he built, and every city he built—are they not recorded in the book of daily events for Israel's kings?
41. Ahab lay down with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
42. Jehoshaphat, Asa’s son, reigned over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab, king of Israel.
43. Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.
44. Jehoshaphat walked in all the way of his father Asa without turning aside from it, doing the right in Yahweh's eyes, and made peace with Israel's king.
46. He expelled from the land the remnant of the sodomites that remained in the days of his father Asa.
47. Edom had no king; a deputy was king.
48. Jehoshaphat made ten Tarshish ships to sail to Ophir seeking gold, but they never set out, since the ships broke apart at Ezion-geber.
49. Then Ahaziah, Ahab's son, said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships." But Jehoshaphat would not.
50. Jehoshaphat lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
51. Ahaziah son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.
52. He behaved wickedly in the sight of Yahweh and followed his father's path, his mother's path, and the path of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
53. He served Baal and worshiped him, provoking the anger of Yahweh, God of Israel, just as his father had done.

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