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And he brought into the house of God the holy things of his father and his own holy things: silver and gold and utensils.

So Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his military forces against the cities of Israel, and they struck down Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

Now it happened that when Baasha heard of it, he ceased building up Ramah and stopped his work.

And Asa became diseased in his feet in the thirty-ninth year of his reign. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek Yahweh, but the physicians.

So Asa slept with his fathers. And he died in the forty-first year of his reign.

And they buried him in his own tomb which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled with spices of various kinds blended by the perfumers' art; and they made a very great fire for him.

Jehoshaphat his son then became king in his place, and strengthened himself over Israel.

And he put military forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his father had captured.

And Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the ways of his father David's earlier days and did not seek the Baals,

but sought the God of his father, walked in His commandments, and did not act as Israel did.

So Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand, and all Judah brought presents to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor.

And his heart took great pride in the ways of Yahweh, and again he took away the high places and the Asherim from Judah.

Then in the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;

Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, clothed in their royal garments, and they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

So he said,"I saw all IsraelScattered on the mountains,Like sheep which have no shepherd;And Yahweh said,‘These have no master.Let each of them return to his house in peace.'"

Then Micaiah said, "Therefore, hear the word of Yahweh. I saw Yahweh sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing on His right and on His left.

And he said, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' Then He said, ‘You shall entice him and also prevail. Go out and do so.'

Now the king of Aram had commanded the commanders of his chariots, saying, "Do not fight with small or great, but with the king of Israel alone."

Now a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of the chariot, "Turn around and take me out of the fight, for I am severely wounded."

Now the battle raged that day, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot in front of the Arameans until the evening; and at sunset he died.