So he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go to battle with me at Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “[a](A)Consider me yours, my people yours, and my horses yours!”

However, Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please request the word of the Lord [b]first.” So (B)the king of Israel assembled the [c]prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead or should I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord will hand it over to the king.” But (C)Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no longer a prophet of the Lord here, that we may inquire of him?”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 22:4 Lit As me as you, as my people...as my horses, as your horses, an ancient idiom
  2. 1 Kings 22:5 Lit today
  3. 1 Kings 22:6 I.e., official prophets who at that time were false

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