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The king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, yet we are doing nothing to take it out of the hand of the king of Aram?"

Then Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of the Lord : I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the host of heaven standing beside him to the right and to the left of him.

‘How?' the Lord asked him. He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' Then the Lord said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do it.'

Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, "Fight with no one small or great, but only with the king of Israel."

But a certain man drew his bow and unknowingly struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate; so he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn around, and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded."

The battle grew hot that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans, until at evening he died; the blood from the wound had flowed into the bottom of the chariot.

Then about sunset a shout went through the army, "Every man to his city, and every man to his country!"

They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; the dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes washed themselves in it, according to the word of the Lord that he had spoken.

So Ahab slept with his ancestors; and his son Ahaziah succeeded him.

Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.

He walked in all the way of his father Asa; he did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord ; yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and offered incense on the high places.

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his power that he showed, and how he waged war, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah?

The remnant of the male temple prostitutes who were still in the land in the days of his father Asa, he exterminated.

Jehoshaphat slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his father David; his son Jehoram succeeded him.

He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord , and walked in the way of his father and mother, and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.

He served Baal and worshiped him; he provoked the Lord , the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.

Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay injured; so he sent messengers, telling them, "Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury."

They answered him, "A hairy man, with a leather belt around his waist." He said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite."

Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, "O man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.'"

But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty." Then fire came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.