Kings III 22:21-40

²¹And there came forth a spirit and stood before the Lord, and said, I will deceive him.

²²And the Lord said to him, Whereby? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, You shall deceive him, yes, and shall prevail: go forth, and do so.

²³And now, behold, the Lord has put a false spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets, and the Lord has spoken evil against you.

²⁴And Sedekias the son of Chanaan came near and struck Michaias on the cheek, and said, What sort of a spirit of the Lord has spoken in you?

²⁵And Michaias said, Behold, you shall see in that day, when you shall go into an innermost chamber to hide yourself there.

²⁶And the king of Israel said, Take Michaias, and convey him away to Semer the keeper of the city;

²⁷and tell Joas the king's son to put this fellow in prison, and to feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction until I return in peace.

²⁸And Michaias said, If you return at all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.

²⁹So the king of Israel went up, and Josaphat king of Juda with him to Remmath Galaad.

³⁰And the king of Israel said to Josaphat king of Juda, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle, and do you put on my raiment. So the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

³¹And the king of Syria had charged the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight not against small or great, but against the king of Israel only.

³²And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat king of Juda, that they said, this seems to be the king of Israel. And they compassed him about to fight against him; and Josaphat cried out.

³³And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw that this was not the king of Israel, that they returned from him.

³⁴And one drew a bow with a good aim, and struck the king of Israel between the lungs and the breast-plate: and he said to his charioteer, Turn your hands, and carry me away out of the battle, for I am wounded.

³⁵And the war was turned in that day, and the king was standing on the chariot, against Syria from morning till evening; and he shed the blood out of his wound, into the bottom of the chariot, and died at even, and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.

³⁶And the herald of the army stood at sunset, saying, Let every man go to his own city and his own land,

³⁷for the king is dead. And they came to Samaria, and buried the king in Samaria.

³⁸And they washed the chariot at the fountain of Samaria; and the swine and the dogs licked up the blood, and the harlots washed themselves in the blood, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.

³⁹And the rest of the acts of Achaab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities which he built, behold, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

⁴⁰And Achaab slept with his fathers, and Ochozias his son reigned in his stead.