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So the king of Israel called 400 prophets together. He asked them, “Should I go to war against Ramoth in Gilead or not?”

“Go,” they said. “Adonay[a] will hand over Ramoth to you.”

But Jehoshaphat asked, “Isn’t there a prophet of Yahweh whom we could ask?”

The king of Israel told Jehoshaphat, “We can ask Yahweh through Micaiah, son of Imlah, but I hate him. He doesn’t prophesy anything good about me, only evil.”

Jehoshaphat answered, “The king must not say that.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 22:6 Some Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts, Targum “The Lord.”

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