For three years there was no war between Aram and Israel.
But in the third year Jehosphaphat king of Judah
went down to see the king of Israel.
The king of Israel said to his officials,
"Don't you know that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us
and yet we are doing nothing to retake it
from the king of Aram?
So he asked Jehosphaphat,
"Will you go with me to fight against Ramoth Gilead?"
Jehosphaphat replied to the king of Israel,
"I am as you are,
my people as your people,
my horses as your horses."
But Jehosphaphat also said to the king of Israel,
"First seek the counsel of the Lord."
So the king of Israel brought together the prophets -
about four hundred men - and asked them,
"Shall I got to war against Ramoth Gilead,
or shall I refrain?"
"Go," they answered,
"For the Lord will give it into the king's hand."
But Jehosphaphat asked,
"Is there not a prophet of the Lord here
we can inquire of?"
The king of Israel answered Jehosphaphat,
"There is still one man
through whom we can inquire of the Lord,
but I hate him
because he never prophesies anything good about me,
but always bad.
He is Micaiah son of Imlah."
"The king should not say that,"
Jehosphaphat replied.
(I Kings 22:1-8)
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