5. Ahab sent for four hundred prophets and asked, “Should I attack the city of Ramoth?”“Yes!” the prophets answered. “God will help you capture the city.”
6. But Jehoshaphat said, “Just to make sure, is there another of the Lord's prophets we can ask?”
7. “We could ask Micaiah son of Imlah,” Ahab said. “But I hate Micaiah. He always has bad news for me.”“Don't say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.
8. Then Ahab sent someone to bring Micaiah as soon as possible.
9. All this time, Ahab and Jehoshaphat were dressed in their royal robes and were seated on their thrones at the threshing place near the gate of Samaria, listening to the prophets tell them what the Lord had said.