Verse 5
2 Chronicles 18:5
Literal Standard Version
5
And the king of Israel gathers the prophets, four hundred men, and says to them, “Do we go to Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or do I refrain?” And they say, “Go up, and God (Elohim) gives it into the hand of the king.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּקְבֹּ֨ץ מֶֽלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל אֶֽת הַ/נְּבִאִים֮ אַרְבַּ֣ע מֵא֣וֹת אִישׁ֒ וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵ/הֶ֗ם הֲ/נֵלֵ֞ךְ אֶל רָמֹ֥ת גִּלְעָ֛ד לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה אִם אֶחְדָּ֑ל וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ עֲלֵ֔ה וְ/יִתֵּ֥ן הָ/אֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּ/יַ֥ד הַ/מֶּֽלֶךְ
English Translation
And the king of Israel gathered the prophets, four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead for battle, or shall we refrain?" And they said, "Go up, and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king."
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Chapter 18 Context
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and goes down at the end of certain years to Samaria to visit Ahab, and Ahab sacrifices sheep and ox...
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And Ahab king of Israel says to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Do you go with me to Ramoth-Gilead?” And...
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And Jehoshaphat says to the king of Israel, “Please seek the word of YHWH this day.”
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And the king of Israel gathers the prophets, four hundred men, and says to them, “Do we go to Ramoth...
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And Jehoshaphat says, “Is there not still a prophet of YHWH here, and we seek from him?”
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And the king of Israel says to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man to seek YHWH from him, and I hav...
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And the king of Israel calls to a certain officer and says, “Hurry Micaiah son of Imlah.”
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And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah are sitting, each on his throne, clothed with g...
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And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah makes horns of iron for himself and says, “Thus said YHWH:
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With these you push Aram until you have consumed them.” And all the prophets are prophesying so, say...
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And the messenger who has gone to call for Micaiah has spoken to him, saying, “Behold, the words of...
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And Micaiah says “YHWH lives, surely that which my God (Elohim) says, I speak it.”
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And he comes to the king, and the king says to him, “Micaiah, do we go to Ramoth-Gilead to battle, o...
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And the king says to him, “How many times am I adjuring you that you speak to me only truth in the N...
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And he says, “I have seen all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd, and...
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And the king of Israel says to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not say to you that he does not prophesy good con...
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And Micaiah says, “Therefore, hear a word of YHWH: I have seen YHWH sitting on His throne, and all t...
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and YHWH says, Who entices Ahab king of Israel, and he goes up and falls in Ramoth-Gilead? And this...
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And the spirit goes out, and stands before YHWH, and says, I entice him; and YHWH says to him, With...
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And he says, I go out, and have become a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets. And H...
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And now, behold, YHWH has put a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of these prophets of yours, and YHW...
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And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah comes near and strikes Micaiah on the cheek, and says, “Where is this—...
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And Micaiah says, “Behold, you see in that day that you enter into the innermost chamber to be hidde...
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And the king of Israel says, “Take Micaiah, and turn him back to Amon head of the city, and to Joash...
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and you have said, Thus said the king: Put this one in the house of restraint, and cause him to eat...
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And Micaiah says, “If you certainly return in peace, YHWH has not spoken by me”; and he says, “Hear,...
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And the king of Israel goes up—and Jehoshaphat king of Judah—to Ramoth-Gilead;
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and the king of Israel says to Jehoshaphat to disguise himself, and to go into battle, “And you, put...
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And the king of Aram has commanded the heads of the charioteers whom he has, saying, “You do not fig...
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And it comes to pass at the heads of the charioteers seeing Jehoshaphat, that they have said, “He is...
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indeed, it comes to pass, at the heads of the charioteers seeing that it has not been the king of Is...
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And a man has drawn with a bow in his simplicity, and strikes the king of Israel between the joining...
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