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chapter 22
1
And
there passed three years without war between Syria and Israel.
2 And in the third year, Josaphat king of Juda came
down to the king of Israel.
3 (And the king of Israel said to his servants: Know ye
not-that Ramoth Galaad is ours, and we neglect to take it out of the hand of
the king of Syria?)
4 And he said to Josaphat: Wilt thou come with me to
battle to Ramoth Galaad ?
5 And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: As I am, so
art thou: my people and thy people are one: and my horsemen, thy horsemen. And
Josaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I beseech thee, this day, the
word of the Lord.
6 Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about
four hundred men, and he said to them: Shall I go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or
shall I forbear? They answered: Go up, and the Lord will deliver it into the
hand of the king.
7 And Josaphat said: Is there not here some prophet of
the Lord, that we may inquire by him?
8 And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: There is one
man left, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: Micheas the son of Jemla; but I
hate him, for he doth not prophesy good to me, but evil. And Josaphat said:
Speak not so, O king.
9 Then the king of Israel called an eunuch, and said to
him: Make haste, and bring hither Micheas the son of Jemla.
10 Then the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda,
sat each on his throne clothed with royal robes, in a court by the entrance of
the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.
11 And Sedecias the son of Chanaana made himself horns
of iron, and said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till
thou destroy it.
12 And all the prophets prophesied in like manner,
saying: Go up to Ramoth Galaad, and prosper, for the Lord will deliver it into
the king's hands.
13 And the messenger, that went to call Micheas, spoke
to him, saying: Behold the words of the prophets with one month declare good
things to the king: let thy word therefore be like to theirs, and speak that
which is good.
14 But Micheas said to him: As the Lord liveth,
whatsoever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak.
15 So he came to the king, and the king said to him:
Micheas, shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to battle, or shall we forbear? He
answered him: Go up, and prosper, and the Lord shall deliver it into the king's
hands.
16 But the king said to him: I adjure thee again and
again, that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the
Lord.
17 And he said: I saw all Israel scattered upon the
hills, like sheep that have no shepherd: and the Lord said: These have no
master: let every man of them return to his house in peace.
18 (Then the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not
tell thee, that he prophesieth no good to me, but always evil ?)
19 And he added and said: Hear thou therefore the word
of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven
standing by him on the right hand and on the left:
20 And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab king of
Israel, that he may go up, and fall at Ramoth Galaad? And one spoke words of
this manner, and another otherwise.
21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the
Lord, and said: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means?
22 And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying spirit
in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive him, and
shalt prevail: a go forth, and do so.
23 Now therefore behold the Lord hath given a lying
spirit in the mouth of all thy prophets that are here, and the Lord hath spoken
evil against thee.
24 And Sedecias the son of Chanaana came, and struck
Micheas on the cheek, and said: Hath then the spirit of the Lord left me, and
spoken to thee?
25 And Micheas said: Thou shalt see in the day when
thou shalt go into a chamber within a chamber to hide thyself.
26 And the king of Israel said: Take Micheas, and let
him abide with Ammon the governor of the city, and with Joas the son of
Amalech.
27 And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in
prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress, till I
return in peace.
28 And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord
hath not spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.
29 So the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda
went up to Ramoth Galaad.
30 And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Take
armour, and go into the battle, and put on thy own garments. But the king of
Israel changed his dress, and went into the battle.
31 And the king of Syria had commanded the two and
thirty captains of the chariots, saying: You shall not fight against any, small
or great, but against the king of Israel only.
32 So when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat,
they suspected that he was the king of Israel, and making a violent assault
they fought against him: and Josaphat cried out.
33 And the captains of the chariots perceived that he
was not the king of and they turned away from him.
34 And a certain man bent his bow, shooting at a
venture, and chanced to strike the king of Israel between the lungs and the
stomach. But he said to the driver of his chariot: Turn thy hand, and carry me
out of the army, for I am grievously wounded.
35 And the battle was fought that day, and the king of
Israel stood in his chariot against the Syrians, and he died in the evening:
and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
36 And the herald proclaimed through all the army
before the sun set, saying: Let every man return to his own city, and to his
own country.
37 And the king died, b and was carried into Samaria:
and they buried the king in Samaria.
38 And they washed his chariot in the pool of Samaria,
and the dogs licked up his blood, and they washed the reins, according to the
word of the Lord which he had spoken.
39 But the rest of the acts of Achab, and all that he
did, and the house of ivory that he made, and all the cities that he built, are
they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
40 So Achab slept with his fathers, and Ochozias his
son reigned in his stead.
41 But Josaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Juda
in the fourth year of Achab king of Israel.
42 He was five and thirty years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned five and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his
mother was Azuba the daughter of Salai.
43 And he walked in all the way of Asa his father, and
he declined not from it: and he did that which was right in the sight of the
Lord.
44 Nevertheless he took not away the high places: for
as Set the people offered sacrifices and burnt incense in the high places.
45 And Josaphat had peace with the king of Israel.
46 But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and his works
which he did, and his bat- ties, are they not written in the book of the words
of the days of the kings of Juda?
47 And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained
in the days of Asa his father, he took out of the land.
48 And there was then no king appointed in Edom.
49 But king Josaphat made navies on the sea, to sail
into Ophir for gold: but they could not go, for the ships were broken in
Asiongaber.
50 Then Ochozias the ton of Achab said to Josaphat: Let
my servants go with thy servants in the ships. And Josaphat would not.
51 And Josaphat slept with his fathers. and was buried
with them in the city of David his father: and Joram his son reigned in his
stead.
52 And Ochozias the son of Achab began to reign over
Israel in Samaria, in the seventeenth gear of Josaphat king of Juda, and he
reigned over Israel two years,
53 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked
in the way of his father and his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of
Nabat, who made Israel to sin.
54 He served also Baal, and worshipped him, and
provoked the Lord the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
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