Ahab’s Third Campaign against Aram

22 Now [a]three years passed without war between Aram and Israel. (A)In the third year, (B)Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. Now the king of Israel said to his servants, “Are you aware that (C)Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, yet we are hesitant to take it out of the hand of the king of Aram?” So he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go to battle with me at Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “[b](D)Consider me yours, my people yours, and my horses yours!”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 22:1 Lit they sat for three years
  2. 1 Kings 22:4 Lit As me as you, as my people...as my horses, as your horses, an ancient idiom

Jehoshaphat’s Alliance with Ahab

22 There was(A) a lull of three years(B) without war between Aram and Israel. However, in the third year, Jehoshaphat(C) king of Judah went to visit the king of Israel.(D) The king of Israel had said to his servants, “Don’t you know that Ramoth-gilead(E) is ours, but we have failed to take it from the hand of the king of Aram?” So(F) he asked Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to fight Ramoth-gilead?”(G)

Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”(H)

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