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So the king of Israel gathered together 400 prophets and asked them, “Should we go attack Ramoth-gilead, or should I call off the attack?”[a]

“Go attack them,” they all said, “because God will drop them right in the king’s hand.”

But Jehoshaphat asked, “Isn’t there a prophet of the Lord left here that we could talk to?”

“There is still one man left by whom we could ask the Lord what to do,” the king of Israel replied to Jehoshaphat, “but I hate him because he won’t prophesy anything good about me. Instead, he always prophesies evil. He is Imla’s son Micaiah.”

But Jehoshaphat rebuked Ahab, “Kings[b] should never talk like that.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 18:5 The Heb. lacks the attack
  2. 2 Chronicles 18:7 Lit. The king