1. Even though Jehoshaphat already had great wealth and honor, he allied himself with Ahab through marriage.
2. A few years later, while Jehoshaphat was visiting Ahab in Samaria, Ahab slaughtered many sheep and oxen for Jehoshaphat and those who were with him in order to persuade him to attack Ramoth-gilead.
3. "Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead?" Israel’s King Ahab asked Judah’s King Jehoshaphat.Jehoshaphat replied, "I and my people will be united with you and your people in battle.
4. But," Jehoshaphat said to Israel’s king, "first, let’s see what the Lord has to say."
5. So Israel’s king gathered four hundred prophets and asked them, "Should we go to war with Ramoth-gilead or not?""Attack!" the prophets answered. "God will hand it over to the king."
6. But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn’t there any other prophet of the Lord around whom we could ask?"
7. "There’s one other man who could ask the Lord for us," Israel’s king told Jehoshaphat, "but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, only bad. His name is Micaiah, Imlah’s son.""The king shouldn’t speak like that!" Jehoshaphat said.
8. So Israel’s king called an officer and ordered, "Bring Micaiah, Imlah’s son, right away."
9. Now Israel’s king and Judah’s King Jehoshaphat were sitting on their thrones dressed in their royal robes at the threshing floor beside the entrance to the gate of Samaria. All the prophets were prophesying in front of them.
10. Zedekiah, Chenaanah’s son, made iron horns for himself and said, "This is what the Lord says: With these horns you will gore the Arameans until there’s nothing left of them!"