Portions: I Kings 21 & 22

Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite:
"Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel,
who rules in Samaria.
He is now in Naboth's vineyard,
where he has gone to a take possession of it.
Say to him, 'This is what the Lord says:
Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?'
Then say to him, 'This is what the Lord says:
In the place where dogs licked up Naboth's blood,
dogs will lick up your blood - yes, yours!"
(There was never a man like Ahab,
who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord,
urged on by Jezebel his wife.
He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols,
like the Amorites the Lord drove out before Israel.)
(I Kings 21:17-19,25-26)

For three years
there was no war between Aram and Israel.
Now the king of Aram
had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders,
"Do not fight with anyone, small or great,
except the king of Israel."
So the king died (Ahab) and was brought to Samaria,
and they buried him there.
They washed the chariot at a pool in Samaria
(where the prostitutes bathed),
and the dogs licked up his blood,
as the word of the Lord had declared.
Ahab rested with his fathers.
And Ahaziah his son succeeded him as king.

Jehoshaphat son of Asa became king of Judah
in the forth year of Ahab king of Israel.
Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old
when he became king,
and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years.
His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.
In everything he walked in the ways of his father Asa
and did not stray from them;
he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.
Then Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers
and was buried with them in the city of David his father.
And Jehoram his succeeded him.

Ahaziah son of Ahab became king of Israel in Samaria
in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
and he reigned over Israel two years.
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord,
because he walked in the ways of his father and mother
and in the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat,
who caused Israel to sin.
(I Kings 22:1,31,37-38,40-43,50)