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1 Kings 22:22-41

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22And the Lord said, How? And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.
23And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has said evil against you.
24Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, came near and gave Micaiah a blow on the side of the face, saying, Where is the spirit of the Lord whose word is in you?
25And Micaiah said, Truly, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to keep yourself safe.
26And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon, the ruler of the town, and to Joash, the king's son;
27And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.
28And Micaiah said, If you come back at all in peace, the Lord has not sent his word by me.
29So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead.
30And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will make a change in my clothing, so that I do not seem to be the king, and will go into the fight; but do you put on your robes. So the king of Israel made a change in his dress and went into the fight.
31Now the king of Aram had given orders to the thirty-two captains of his war-carriages, saying, Make no attack on small or great, but only on the king of Israel.
32So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Truly, this is the king of Israel; and turning against him, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry.
33And when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him.
34And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the army, for I am badly wounded.
35But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans, and the floor of the carriage was covered with the blood from his wound, and by evening he was dead.
36And about sundown a cry went up from all parts of the army, saying, Let every man go back to his town and his country, for the king is dead.
37And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.
38And the war-carriage was washed by the pool of Samaria, which was the bathing-place of the loose women, and the dogs were drinking his blood there, as the Lord had said.
39Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all he did, and his ivory house, and all the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
40So Ahab was put to rest with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.
41And Jehoshaphat, the son of Asa, became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab's rule over Israel.

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