Ahab and the False Prophets
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For three years Syria and Israel continued without war.
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s But in the third year t Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
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And the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that u Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we keep quiet and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?"
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And he said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?" And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, v "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses."
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And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Inquire first for the word of the Lord."
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Then the king of Israel w gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?" And they said, "Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king."
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But x Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not here another prophet of the Lord of whom we may inquire?"
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And 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 never prophesies good concerning me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so."
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Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, "Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah."
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Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor y at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
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And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself z horns of iron and said, "Thus says the Lord, 'With these a you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.'"
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And all the prophets prophesied so and said, "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph; the Lord will give it into the hand of the king."
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Cross References
1 Kings 22:1 - 35
For three years Syria and Israel continued without war.
2 Chronicles 18:2 - 34
After some years he went down to Ahab in Samaria. And Ahab killed an abundance of sheep and oxen for him and for the people who were with him, and induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.
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Cross References
1 Kings 15:24
And Asa slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:43
Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for th...
Joshua 21:38
And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead w...
2 Kings 8:28
He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war ...
2 Kings 9:1
Then Elisha the prophet called one of the sons ...
2 Kings 9:14
Thus Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nim...
2 Chronicles 22:5
He even followed their counsel and went with Je...
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Cross References
2 Kings 3:7
And he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to battle against Moab?" And he said, "I will go. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
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Cross References
1 Kings 18:19
Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table.
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Cross References
2 Kings 3:11
And Jehoshaphat said, "Is there no prophet of the Lord here, through whom we may inquire of the Lord ?" Then one of the king of Israel's servants answered, "Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.
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Cross References
Ruth 4:1
Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, "Turn aside, friend; sit down here." And he turned aside and sat down.
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Cross References
Zechariah 1:18 - 19
And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns!
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:17
A firstborn bull - he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
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