< 1 Kings 22 >

1 and to dwell three year nothing battle between Syria and between Israel
For almost three years there was no war between Syria and Israel.
2 and to be in/on/with year [the] third and to go down Jehoshaphat king Judah to(wards) king Israel
Then King Jehoshaphat, who ruled Judah, went to [visit] King Ahab, who ruled Israel.
3 and to say king Israel to(wards) servant/slave his to know for to/for us Ramoth (Ramoth)-gilead and we be silent from to take: take [obj] her from hand: power king Syria
[While they were talking, ] Ahab said to his officials, “Do you realize that the Syrians are still occupying our city of Ramoth in [the] Gilead [region]? And we are doing nothing to retake that city!”
4 and to say to(wards) Jehoshaphat to go: went with me to/for battle Ramoth Gilead and to say Jehoshaphat to(wards) king Israel like me like you like/as people my like/as people your like/as horse my like/as horse your
Then he turned to Jehoshaphat and asked, “Will your [army] join my [army] to fight against the people of Ramoth [and retake that city]?” Jehoshaphat replied, “[Certainly] I [will do whatever] you [want], and you may command my troops. You may take my horses into battle, also.”
5 and to say Jehoshaphat to(wards) king Israel to seek please like/as day: today [obj] word LORD
Then he added, “But we should ask Yahweh first, to find out what he wants us to do.”
6 and to gather king Israel [obj] [the] prophet like/as four hundred man and to say to(wards) them to go: went upon Ramoth (Ramoth)-gilead to/for battle if to cease and to say to ascend: rise and to give: give Lord in/on/with hand: power [the] king
So Ahab summoned about 400 of his prophets together, and he asked them, “Should my [army] go to fight the people in Ramoth and retake that city, or not?” They answered, “Yes, go [and attack them], because God will enable your [army] to defeat them.”
7 and to say Jehoshaphat nothing here prophet to/for LORD still and to seek from [obj] him
But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of Yahweh here whom we can ask?”
8 and to say king Israel to(wards) Jehoshaphat still man one to/for to seek [obj] LORD from [obj] him and I to hate him for not to prophesy upon me pleasant that if: except if: except bad: evil Micaiah son: child Imlah and to say Jehoshaphat not to say [the] king so
The King of Israel replied, “There is one man we can talk to. We can ask him if he can find out what Yahweh wants. His name is Micaiah; he is the son of Imlah. But I hate him, because when he (prophesies/tells what God says to him) he never says [that] anything good [will happen] to me. He always predicts [that] bad things [will happen to me].” Jehoshaphat replied, “King Ahab, you should not say that!”
9 and to call: call to king Israel to(wards) eunuch one and to say to hasten [emph?] Micaiah son: child Imlah
So the king of Israel told one of his officers to summon Micaiah immediately.
10 and king Israel and Jehoshaphat king Judah to dwell man: anyone upon throne his to clothe garment in/on/with threshing floor entrance gate Samaria and all [the] prophet to prophesy to/for face: before their
The king of Israel and the king of Judah were wearing their (royal robes/robes that showed that they were kings). They were sitting on thrones at the place where people threshed grain, near the gate of Samaria [city]. All of Ahab’s prophets were standing in front of the kings, (prophesying/predicting what was going to happen).
11 and to make to/for him Zedekiah son: child Chenaanah horn iron and to say thus to say LORD in/on/with these to gore [obj] Syria till to end: destroy them
One of them, whose name was Zedekiah, the son of Kenaanah, had made from iron [something that resembled] horns of a bull. Then he proclaimed [to Ahab], “This is what Yahweh says: ‘With horns like these your [army] will keep attacking the Syrians [like a bull attacks another animal] [MET], until you completely destroy them!’”
12 and all [the] prophet to prophesy so to/for to say to ascend: rise Ramoth (Ramoth)-gilead and to prosper and to give: give LORD in/on/with hand: power [the] king
All the [other] prophets [of Ahab] agreed. They said, “Yes! If you go up to attack Ramoth [city] in [the] Gilead [region], you will be successful, because Yahweh will enable you to defeat them!”
13 and [the] messenger which to go: went to/for to call: call to Micaiah to speak: speak to(wards) him to/for to say behold please word [the] prophet lip: according one pleasant to(wards) [the] king to be please (word your *Q(K)*) like/as word one from them and to speak: speak pleasant
Meanwhile, the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Listen to me! All the other prophets are predicting that the king’s army will defeat the Syrians. So be sure that you agree with them and say (what will be favorable/that the king’s army will be successful).”
14 and to say Micaiah alive LORD for [obj] which to say LORD to(wards) me [obj] him to speak: speak
But Micaiah replied, “As surely as Yahweh lives, I will tell him only what Yahweh tells me to say.”
15 and to come (in): come to(wards) [the] king and to say [the] king to(wards) him Micaiah to go: went to(wards) Ramoth (Ramoth)-gilead to/for battle if to cease and to say to(wards) him to ascend: rise and to prosper and to give: give LORD in/on/with hand: power [the] king
When Micaiah came to Ahab, Ahab asked him, “Micaiah, should we go to fight against [the people of] Ramoth, or not?” Micaiah replied, “Sure, go! Yahweh will enable your army to defeat them!”
16 and to say to(wards) him [the] king till like/as what? beat I to swear you which not to speak: speak to(wards) me except truth: true in/on/with name LORD
But King Ahab [realized that Micaiah was (lying/being sarcastic), so he] said to Micaiah, “I have told you [RHQ] many times that you must always tell only the truth when you say what Yahweh [has revealed to you]!”
17 and to say to see: see [obj] all Israel to scatter to(wards) [the] mountain: mount like/as flock which nothing to/for them to pasture and to say LORD not lord to/for these to return: return man: anyone to/for house: home his in/on/with peace
So Micaiah said to him, “[The truth is that] in a vision I saw all the troops of Israel scattered on the mountains. They seemed to be like sheep that did not have a shepherd. And Yahweh said, ‘Their master has been killed. So tell them all to go home peacefully.’”
18 and to say king Israel to(wards) Jehoshaphat not to say to(wards) you not to prophesy upon me pleasant that if: except if: except bad: evil
Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “I told you [RHQ] that he never predicts [that] anything good [will happen to me]! He [always] predicts [that] bad things [will happen to me].”
19 and to say to/for so to hear: hear word LORD to see: see [obj] LORD to dwell upon throne his and all army [the] heaven to stand: stand upon him from right his and from left his
But Micaiah continued, saying, “Listen to what Yahweh showed to me! [In a vision] I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, with all the armies of heaven surrounding him, on his right side and on his left side.
20 and to say LORD who? to entice [obj] Ahab and to ascend: rise and to fall: kill in/on/with Ramoth Gilead and to say this in/on/with thus and this to say in/on/with thus
And Yahweh said, ‘Who can persuade Ahab to go to fight against the people of Ramoth, in order that he may be killed there?’ Some suggested one thing, and others suggested something else.
21 and to come out: come [the] spirit and to stand: stand to/for face: before LORD and to say I to entice him
Finally one [evil] spirit came to Yahweh and said, ‘I can do it!’
22 and to say LORD to(wards) him in/on/with what? and to say to come out: come and to be spirit deception in/on/with lip all prophet his and to say to entice and also be able to come out: come and to make: do so
Yahweh asked him, ‘How will you do it?’ The spirit replied, ‘I will go and inspire all of Ahab’s prophets to tell lies.’ Yahweh said, ‘You will be successful; go and do it!’
23 and now behold to give: put LORD spirit deception in/on/with lip all prophet your these and LORD to speak: promise upon you distress: harm
So now [I tell you that] Yahweh has caused all of your prophets to lie to you. Yahweh has decided that something terrible will happen to you.”
24 and to approach: approach Zedekiah son: child Chenaanah and to smite [obj] Micaiah upon [the] jaw and to say where? this to pass spirit LORD from with me to/for to speak: speak with you
Then Zedekiah walked over to Micaiah and slapped him on his face. He said, “Do you think that Yahweh’s Spirit left me in order to speak to you?” [RHQ]
25 and to say Micaiah look! you to see: see in/on/with day [the] he/she/it which to come (in): come chamber in/on/with chamber to/for to hide
Micaiah replied, “You will find out for yourself [which of us Yahweh’s Spirit has truly spoken to] on the day when you go into a room of some house to hide [from the Syrian troops]!”
26 and to say king Israel to take: take [obj] Micaiah and to return: return him to(wards) Amon ruler [the] city and to(wards) Joash son: child [the] king
King Ahab commanded [his soldiers], “Seize Micaiah and take him to Amon, the governor of this city, and to my son Joash.
27 and to say thus to say [the] king to set: put [obj] this house: home [the] prison and to eat him food: bread oppression and water oppression till to come (in): come I in/on/with peace
Tell them that I have commanded that they should put this man in prison and give him only bread and water. Do not give him anything else to eat until I return safely from the battle!”
28 and to say Micaiah if to return: return to return: return in/on/with peace not to speak: speak LORD in/on/with me and to say to hear: hear people all their
Micaiah replied, “If you return safely, [it will be clear that] it was not Yahweh who told me what to say to you!” Then he said [to all those who were standing there], “Do not forget what I have said [to King Ahab]!”
29 and to ascend: rise king Israel and Jehoshaphat king Judah Ramoth (Ramoth)-gilead
So the King of Israel and the King of Judah [led their armies] to Ramoth, in [the] Gilead [region].
30 and to say king Israel to(wards) Jehoshaphat to search and to come (in): come in/on/with battle and you(m. s.) to clothe garment your and to search king Israel and to come (in): come in/on/with battle
King Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “I will put on different clothes, [in order that no one will recognize that I am the king]. But you should wear your (royal robe/robe that shows that you are a king).” So Ahab disguised himself, and they both went into the battle.
31 and king Syria to command [obj] ruler [the] chariot which to/for him thirty and two to/for to say not to fight with small and with great: large that if: except if: except with king Israel to/for alone him
The King of Syria told this to his thirty-two men who were driving the chariots: “Attack only the king of Israel!”
32 and to be like/as to see: see ruler [the] chariot [obj] Jehoshaphat and they(masc.) to say surely king Israel he/she/it and to turn aside: turn aside upon him to/for to fight and to cry out Jehoshaphat
So when the men who were driving the Syrian chariots saw Jehoshaphat [wearing (his royal robes/clothes that showed he was the king)], they pursued him. They shouted, “There is the king of Israel!” But when Jehoshaphat cried out,
33 and to be like/as to see: see ruler [the] chariot for not king Israel he/she/it and to return: return from after him
they realized that he was not the king of Israel. So they stopped pursuing him.
34 and man: anyone to draw in/on/with bow to/for integrity his and to smite [obj] king Israel between [the] joint and between [the] armor and to say to/for charioteer his to overturn hand: themselves your and to come out: send me from [the] camp for be weak: ill
But one [Syrian] soldier shot an arrow at Ahab, without knowing that it was Ahab. The arrow struck Ahab between the places where the parts of his armor joined together. Ahab told the driver of his chariot, “Turn the chariot around and take me out of here! I have been severely wounded!”
35 and to ascend: rise [the] battle in/on/with day [the] he/she/it and [the] king to be to stand: stand in/on/with chariot before Syria and to die in/on/with evening and to pour: pour blood [the] wound to(wards) bosom: lap [the] chariot
The battle continued all the day. Ahab was sitting propped up in his chariot, facing the Syrian troops. The blood from his wound ran down to the floor of the chariot. And late in the afternoon he died.
36 and to pass [the] cry in/on/with camp like/as to come (in): (sun)set [the] sun to/for to say man: anyone to(wards) city his and man: anyone to(wards) land: country/planet his
Just as the sun was going down, someone among the Israeli troops shouted, “[The battle is ended!] Everyone should return home!”
37 and to die [the] king and to come (in): come Samaria and to bury [obj] [the] king in/on/with Samaria
So king Ahab died, and they took his body [in the chariot] to Samaria [city] and buried his body there.
38 and to overflow [obj] [the] chariot upon pool Samaria and to lick [the] dog [obj] blood his and [the] to fornicate to wash: wash like/as word LORD which to speak: speak
They washed his chariot alongside the pool in Samaria, a pool where the prostitutes bathed. And dogs [came and] licked the king’s blood, just like Yahweh had predicted would happen.
39 and remainder word: deed Ahab and all which to make: do and house: home [the] tooth: ivory which to build and all [the] city which to build not they(masc.) to write upon scroll: book Chronicles [the] day to/for king Israel
The account/record of the other things that happened while Ahab was ruling, and about the palace decorated with much ivory [that they built for him], and the cities that were built for him, was written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Israel’.
40 and to lie down: be dead Ahab with father his and to reign Ahaziah son: child his underneath: instead him
When Ahab died, his body was buried where his ancestors were buried. Then his son Ahaziah became king.
41 and Jehoshaphat son: child Asa to reign upon Judah in/on/with year four to/for Ahab king Israel
Before King Ahab died, when he had been ruling in Israel for four years, Asa’s son Jehoshaphat started to rule in Judah.
42 Jehoshaphat son: aged thirty and five year in/on/with to reign he and twenty and five year to reign in/on/with Jerusalem and name mother his Azubah daughter Shilhi
Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he started to rule, and he ruled in Jerusalem for twenty-five years. His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.
43 and to go: walk in/on/with all way: conduct Asa father his not to turn aside: turn aside from him to/for to make: do [the] upright in/on/with eye: seeing LORD surely [the] high place not to turn aside: remove still [the] people to sacrifice and to offer: offer in/on/with high place
Jehoshaphat was a good king, just like his father Asa had been. He did things that pleased Yahweh. But while he was king, he did not remove all the pagan altars [that the people had built] on the hilltops. So the people continued to offer sacrifices [to idols] on those altars and burned incense there.
44 and to ally Jehoshaphat with king Israel
Jehoshaphat also made [a] peace [agreement] with the king of Israel.
45 and remainder word: deed Jehoshaphat and might his which to make: do and which to fight not they(masc.) to write upon scroll: book word: deed [the] day to/for king Judah
All the other things that happened while Jehoshaphat was ruling, and the great things that he did and the victories his [troops] won, are written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.
46 and remainder [the] male cult prostitute which to remain in/on/with day Asa father his to burn: burn from [the] land: country/planet
Jehoshaphat’s father Asa [had tried to expel] the male prostitutes that stayed at the pagan shrines, but some of them were still there. Jehoshaphat got rid of them.
47 and king nothing in/on/with Edom to stand king
At that time, there was no king in Edom; a ruler who had been appointed by Jehoshaphat ruled there.
48 Jehoshaphat (to make: do *Q(K)*) fleet Tarshish to/for to go: went Ophir [to] to/for gold and not to go: went for (to break *Q(K)*) fleet in/on/with Ezion-geber Ezion-geber
Jehoshaphat [ordered some Israeli men to] build a fleet/group of ships to sail [south] to [the] Ophir [region] to get gold. But they were wrecked at Ezion-Geber/Elath, so the ships never sailed.
49 then to say Ahaziah son: child Ahab to(wards) Jehoshaphat to go: went servant/slave my with servant/slave your in/on/with fleet and not be willing Jehoshaphat
Before the ships were wrecked, Ahab’s son Ahaziah suggested to Jehoshaphat, “Allow my sailors to go with your sailors,” but Jehoshaphat refused.
50 and to lie down: be dead Jehoshaphat with father his and to bury with father his in/on/with city David father his and to reign Jehoram son: child his underneath: instead him
When Jehoshaphat died, his [body] was buried where his ancestors were buried in [Jerusalem, ] the city where King David [had ruled]. Then Jehoshaphat’s son Jehoram became king.
51 Ahaziah son: child Ahab to reign upon Israel in/on/with Samaria in/on/with year seven ten to/for Jehoshaphat king Judah and to reign upon Israel year
Before King Jehoshaphat died, when he had been ruling in Judah for 17 years, Ahab’s son Ahaziah began to rule in Israel. Ahaziah ruled in Samaria for two years.
52 and to make: do [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD and to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct father his and in/on/with way: conduct mother his and in/on/with way: conduct Jeroboam son: child Nebat which to sin [obj] Israel
He did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil, doing the [evil] things that his father and mother had done and the evil things that Jeroboam had done—the king who had led all the Israeli people to sin [by worshiping idols].
53 and to serve: minister [obj] [the] Baal and to bow to/for him and to provoke [obj] LORD God Israel like/as all which to make: do father his
Ahaziah bowed in front of Baal’s idol and worshiped it. That caused Yahweh, the God who was the true God of the Israeli people, to become very angry, just as Ahaziah’s father had caused Yahweh to become angry.

< 1 Kings 22 >