1 Kings 22:31-40

³¹The king of Aram had already given these orders to his chariot commanders: “Head straight for the king of Israel alone. Don't fight with anyone else, whoever they are.”

³²So when the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they shouted, “This must be the king of Israel!” So they turned to attack him, but when Jehoshaphat called out for help,

³³the chariot commanders saw it wasn't the king of Israel and stopped chasing him.

³⁴However, an enemy archer shot an arrow at random, hitting the king of Israel between the joints of his armor by his breastplate. The king told his charioteer, “Turn around and get me out of the fight, because I've been wounded!”

³⁵The battle lasted all day. The king of Israel was propped up in his chariot to face the Arameans, but in the evening he died. The blood had poured out of his wound onto the floor of the chariot.

³⁶At sunset, a shout went out from the lines: “Retreat! Every man back to his town, every man back to his own country!”

³⁷So the king died. He was taken back to Samaria where they buried him.

³⁸They washed his chariot at a pool in Samaria where the prostitutes came to bathe, and dogs licked up his blood, just as the Lord had said.

³⁹The rest of what happened in Ahab's reign, all that he did, the ivory palace he constructed and all the cities he built are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

⁴⁰Ahab died and his son Ahaziah succeeded him as king.