Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

2 Paralipomenon 18:5-10 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

5. So the king of Israel gathered together of the prophets four hundred men, and he said to them: Shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or shall we forbear? But they said: Go up, and God will deliver it into the king's hand.

6. And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire also of him?

7. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: There is one man, of whom we may ask the will of the Lord: but I hate him, for he never prophesieth good to me, but always evil: and it is Micheas the son of Jemla. And Josaphat said: Speak not thus, O king.

8. And the king of Israel called one of the eunuchs, and said to him: Call quickly Micheas the son of Jemla.

9. Now the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda, both sat on their thrones, clothed in royal robes, and they sat in the open court by the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.

10. And Sedecias the son of Chanaana made him horns of iron, and said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou destroy it.