2 Chronicles 18
1 and to be to/for Jehoshaphat riches and glory to/for abundance and be related to/for Ahab
Jehoshaphat became very wealthy and was greatly honored. But then he arranged for one of his family to marry someone from the family of King Ahab [of Israel].
2 and to go down to/for end year to(wards) Ahab to/for Samaria and to sacrifice to/for him Ahab flock and cattle to/for abundance and to/for people which with him and to incite him to/for to ascend: rise to(wards) Ramoth (Ramoth)-gilead
Several years later, he went down [from Jerusalem] to Samaria to visit Ahab. Ahab welcomed him and the people who had come with him by slaughtering many sheep and cattle [for a feast].
3 and to say Ahab king Israel to(wards) Jehoshaphat king Judah to go: went with me Ramoth (Ramoth)-gilead and to say to/for him like me like you and like/as people your people my and with you in/on/with battle
Then he asked Jehoshaphat, “Will you [and your army] go with my army to attack Ramoth [city] in [the] Gilead [region]?” Jehoshaphat replied, “My soldiers and I will go to the battle when you tell us to go.”
4 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.”
5 and to gather king Israel [obj] [the] prophet four hundred man and to say to(wards) them to go: went to(wards) Ramoth (Ramoth)-gilead to/for battle if to cease and to say to ascend: rise and to give: give [the] God in/on/with hand: power [the] king
So the king of Israel gathered all his 400 prophets and asked them, “Should we go to attack the people of Ramoth [city], or should we not do that?” They replied, “Yes, go [and attack them] because God will enable your army to defeat them.”
6 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?”
7 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 nothing he to prophesy upon me to/for welfare for all day: always his to/for bad: evil he/she/it Micaiah son: child Imlah and to say Jehoshaphat not to say [the] king so
The king of Israel replied, “There is still one man here, whom we can ask to find out what Yahweh wants, his name is Micaiah, the son of Imlah. But I hate him because he never says anything good about me. He always predicts [that] bad [things will happen to me].” Jehoshaphat replied, “King Ahab, you should not say that!”
8 and to call: call to king Israel to(wards) eunuch one and to say to hasten (Micaiah *Q(K)*) son: child Imlah
So the king of Israel told one of his officials to summon Micaiah immediately.
9 and king Israel and Jehoshaphat king Judah to dwell man: anyone upon throne his to clothe garment and to dwell 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 sitting there on their thrones, wearing their royal robes. They were at the place where people threshed grain, near the gate of Samaria [city]. All of [Ahab’s] prophets were standing in front of them, predicting what was going to happen.
10 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 the horns of a bull. He proclaimed to Ahab, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘With horns [like these], your [army] will keep attacking the army of Syria [like a bull attacks another animal], until you completely destroy them.’”
11 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 attack Ramoth [city] in [the] Gilead [region], you will be successful, because Yahweh will enable you to defeat them.”
12 and [the] messenger which to go: went to/for to call: call to to/for Micaiah to speak: speak to(wards) him to/for to say behold word [the] prophet lip: according one pleasant to(wards) [the] king and to be please word your like/as one from them and to speak: speak pleasant
The messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Listen to me! All the other prophets are unitedly predicting that the king will be successful [in the battle]. So be sure to agree with them and say that the king’s army will be successful!”
13 and to say Micaiah alive LORD for [obj] which to say God my [obj] him to speak: speak
But Micaiah said, “As surely as Yahweh lives, I will tell the king only what Yahweh tells me to say.”
14 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 ascend: rise and to prosper and to give: give in/on/with hand: power your
When Micaiah arrived, the king [of Israel] asked him, “Should we go to attack Ramoth, or not?” Micaiah replied, “Sure, go! Yahweh will enable your army to defeat them!”
15 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, so he] said to Micaiah, “I have told you many times that you must always tell only the truth when you say what Yahweh [has revealed to you]!”
16 and to say to see: see [obj] all Israel to scatter upon [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
Then Micaiah replied, “[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.’”
17 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 to/for bad: evil
Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “I told you that he never predicts that anything good will happen to me! He [always] predicts that bad things will happen to me.”
18 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 right his and 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 [standing around him], on his right side and on his left side.
19 and to say LORD who? to entice [obj] Ahab king Israel and to ascend: rise and to fall: fall in/on/with Ramoth (Ramoth)-gilead and to say this to say thus and this to say thus
And Yahweh said, ‘Who can persuade Ahab, the king of Israel, 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.
20 and to come out: come [the] spirit and to stand: stand to/for face: before LORD and to say I to entice him and to say LORD to(wards) him in/on/with what?
“Finally one spirit, [having received a message from Satan], came to Yahweh and said, ‘I can do it!’ “Yahweh asked him, ‘How will you do it?’
21 and to say to come out: come and to be to/for 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
“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!’
22 and now behold to give: put LORD spirit deception in/on/with lip prophet your these and LORD to speak: promise upon you distress: harm
“So now [I tell you that] Yahweh has caused your prophets to lie to you. Yahweh has decided that something terrible will happen to you.”
23 and to approach: approach Zedekiah son: child Chenaanah and to smite [obj] Micaiah upon [the] jaw and to say where? this [the] way: direction to pass spirit LORD from with me to/for to speak: speak with you
Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah 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?”
24 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 [to which of us Yahweh’s Spirit has truly spoken] on the day when you go into a room of some house to hide [from the Syrian soldiers]!”
25 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.
26 and to say thus to say [the] king to set: put this house: home [the] prison and to eat him food: bread oppression and water oppression till to return: return 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]!”
27 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]!”
28 and to ascend: rise king Israel and Jehoshaphat king Judah to(wards) Ramoth (Ramoth)-gilead
So the king of Israel and the king of Judah [led their armies] to Ramoth, in [the] Gilead [region].
29 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.” So the king of Israel disguised himself, and they both went into the battle.
30 and king Syria to command [obj] ruler [the] chariot which to/for him to/for to say not to fight with [the] small with [the] great: large that if: except if: except with king Israel to/for alone him
The King of Syria told his soldiers who were driving the chariots, “Attack only the king of Israel!”
31 and to be like/as to see: see ruler [the] chariot [obj] Jehoshaphat and they(masc.) to say king Israel he/she/it and to turn: turn upon him to/for to fight and to cry out Jehoshaphat and LORD to help him and to incite them God from him
So when the soldiers who were driving the Syrian chariots saw Jehoshaphat [wearing the royal robes], they thought “He must be the king of Israel!”
32 and to be like/as to see: see ruler [the] chariot for not to be king Israel and to return: return from after him
So they turned to attack him. But when Jehoshaphat cried out, Yahweh helped him, and they realized that he was not the king of Israel. And God caused them to stop pursuing him.
33 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 to overturn (hand: themselves your *Q(K)*) 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!”
34 and to ascend: rise [the] battle in/on/with day [the] he/she/it and king Israel to be to stand: stand in/on/with chariot before Syria till [the] evening and to die to/for time to come (in): (sun)set [the] sun
The battle continued all that day. Ahab was sitting propped up in his chariot, facing the Syrian soldiers. And late in the afternoon, when the sun was setting, he died.
