1 Kings 22:3–15

³and the king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you know Ramoth-Gilead belongs to us, and we are doing nothing about taking it from the hand of the king of Aram?” ⁴Then 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;^a my people are like your people;^b my horses are like your horses.”^c

⁵Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire for the word of Yahweh today.” ⁶Then 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.” ⁷So Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no prophet of Yahweh here that we might still inquire from him?” ⁸Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man to inquire of Yahweh through him, 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.” ⁹The king of Israel summoned a certain court official, and he said, “Quickly fetch Micaiah son of Imlah.” ¹⁰The 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. ¹¹Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, “Thus says Yahweh: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until finishing them.’ ” ¹²All 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.”

¹³Then the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, “Please now, the words of the prophets are unanimously^d favorable to the king. Please let your words be as one word with them, and speak favorably.” ¹⁴Then Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives,^e surely only as Yahweh speaks to me, that will I speak.” ¹⁵When 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.”