Verse 20
1 Kings 22:20
Bible in Basic English
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And the Lord said, How may Ahab be tricked into going up to Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said one thing and one another.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה מִ֤י יְפַתֶּה֙ אֶת אַחְאָ֔ב וְ/יַ֕עַל וְ/יִפֹּ֖ל בְּ/רָמֹ֣ת גִּלְעָ֑ד וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר זֶה֙ בְּ/כֹ֔ה וְ/זֶ֥ה אֹמֵ֖ר בְּ/כֹֽה
English Translation
And the LORD said, "Who will entice Ahab so that he will go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead?" And one said this, and another said that.
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Chapter 22 Context
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Now for three years there was no war between Aram and Israel.
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And it came about in the third year, that Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, came down to the king of Israe...
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And the king of Israel said to his servants, Do you not see that Ramoth-gilead is ours? and we are d...
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And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead to make war? And Jehoshaphat said t...
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Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.
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So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I...
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But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no other prophet of the Lord here from whom we may get directions?
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And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions fro...
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Then the king of Israel sent for one of his unsexed servants and said, Go quickly and come back with...
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Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, were seated on their seats of authority,...
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And Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, made himself horns of iron and said, The Lord says, Pushing back...
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And all the prophets said the same thing, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and it will go well for yo...
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Now the servant who had gone to get Micaiah said to him, See now, all the prophets with one voice ar...
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And Micaiah said, By the living Lord, whatever the Lord says to me I will say.
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When he came to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, are we to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war o...
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Then the king said to him, Have I not, again and again, put you on your oath to say nothing to me bu...
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Then he said, I saw all Israel wandering on the mountains like sheep without a keeper; and the Lord...
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And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say that he would not be a prophet of good but...
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And he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, with...
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And the Lord said, How may Ahab be tricked into going up to Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said...
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Then a spirit came forward and took his place before the Lord and said, I will get him to do it by a...
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And the Lord said, How? And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his...
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And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the L...
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Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, came near and gave Micaiah a blow on the side of the face, sayi...
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And Micaiah said, Truly, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to keep yourself sa...
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And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon, the ruler of the town, and to J...
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And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I co...
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And Micaiah said, If you come back at all in peace, the Lord has not sent his word by me.
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So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead.
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And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will make a change in my clothing, so that I do not se...
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Now the king of Aram had given orders to the thirty-two captains of his war-carriages, saying, Make...
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So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Truly, this is the king of Isr...
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And when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back fr...
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And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of...
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But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carri...
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And about sundown a cry went up from all parts of the army, saying, Let every man go back to his tow...
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And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.
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And the war-carriage was washed by the pool of Samaria, which was the bathing-place of the loose wom...
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Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all he did, and his ivory house, and all the towns of which he...
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So Ahab was put to rest with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.
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And Jehoshaphat, the son of Asa, became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab's rule over Israe...
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Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he was king for twenty-five years in...
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He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of...
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And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his great power, and how he went to war, are they not r...
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He put an end to the rest of those who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, all th...
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At that time there was no king in Edom;
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And the representative of King Jehoshaphat made a Tarshish-ship to go to Ophir for gold, but it did...
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Then Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, said to Jehoshaphat, Let my men go with yours in the ships. But Jehos...
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Then Jehoshaphat went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of D...
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Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of the rule of...
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He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, going in the ways of his father and his mother, and in the ways...
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He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God (Elohim) of Israel, to wrath, as h...
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