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

So he asked Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to fight(A) against Ramoth Gilead?”

Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.” But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “First seek the counsel(B) of the Lord.”

So the king of Israel brought together the prophets—about four hundred men—and asked them, “Shall I go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?”

“Go,”(C) they answered, “for the Lord will give it into the king’s hand.”(D)

But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no longer a prophet(E) of the Lord here whom we can inquire(F) of?”

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