17. The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
18. Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the Lord’s word: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
19. The Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One spoke saying in this way, and another saying in that way.
20. A spirit came out, stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will entice him.’“The Lord said to him, ‘How?’
21. “He said, ‘I will go, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’“He said, ‘You will entice him, and will prevail also. Go and do so.’
22. “Now therefore, behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and the Lord has spoken evil concerning you.”
23. Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the Lord’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”
24. Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.”
25. The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;
26. and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.”’”
27. Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, you people, all of you!”
28. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.