3 And Ahab, the king of Israel, said to Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, 'Come with me to Ramoth Gilead.' And he answered him: 'As I am, so also are you. As your people are, so also are my people. And we will be with you in war.'
4 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, 'Consult, I beg you, the word of the Lord for the present circumstances.'
5 And so the king of Israel gathered together four hundred men of the prophets, and he said to them: 'Should we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or should we be quieted?' But they said, 'Ascend, and God will deliver into the hand of the king.'
6 And Jehoshaphat said, 'Is there not a prophet of the Lord here, so that we may inquire of him as well?'
7 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: 'There is one man, from whom we would be able to ask the will of the Lord. But I hate him, for he never prophesies good to me, but at all times evil. And it is Micaiah, the son of Imlah.' And Jehoshaphat said, 'You should not speak in this manner, O king.'
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