4. Then he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to the battle for Ramoth-Gilead?” Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am like you; my people are like your people; my horses are like your horses.”
5. Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire for the word of Yahweh today.”
6. Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them, “Shall I go against Ramoth-Gilead for the battle, or should I refrain?” Then they said, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”
7. So Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no prophet of Yahweh here that we might still inquire from him?”
8. Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man to inquire from Yahweh, but I despise him, for he never prophesies anything good concerning me, but only bad: Micaiah the son of Imlah.” Then Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say so.”
9. The king of Israel summoned a certain court official, and he said, “Quickly fetch Micaiah son of Imlah.”
10. The king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were each sitting on his throne, dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them.
11. Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, “Thus says Yahweh: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until finishing them.’ ”
12. All of the prophets were likewise prophesying, saying, “Go up to Ramoth-Gilead and triumph, and Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king.”
13. Then the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, “Please now, the words of the prophet are unanimously favorable to the king. Please let your words be as one word with them, and speak favorably.”
14. Then Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, surely only as Yahweh speaks to me, that will I speak.”
15. When he came to the king, the king asked him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to the battle, or shall we refrain?” He said to him, “Go up and triumph, and Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king.”
16. Then the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear that you shall not tell me anything but truth in the name of Yahweh?”