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1 Kings 21:26 (NASB)

[FONT=&quot]He acted very abominably in following idols, [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] cast out before the sons of Israel.[/FONT]
 
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Amorites and dogs?
21:27
And it was when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his garments and put sackcloth on his flesh and he fasted, and he lay in the sackcloth and walked slowly.
 
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[h=1](1 Kings 22:1): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h][h=3]Micaiah Prophesies Against Ahab[/h]22 For three years there was no war between Aram and Israel.
 
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[h=1](1 Kings 22:2): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]2 But in the third year Jehoshaphat king of Judah went down to see the king of Israel.
 
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1 Kings 22:3
New International Version (NIV)


The king of Israel had said to his officials, “Don’t you know that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us and yet we are doing nothing to retake it from the king of Aram?”
 
1 Kings 22:5 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “First seek the counsel[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] of the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot].”[/FONT]
 
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1 Kings 22:6 (NIV)
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So the king of Israel brought together the prophets—about four hundred men—and asked them, “Shall I go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?”[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]“Go,” they answered, “for the Lord will give it into the king’s hand.”[/FONT]
 
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1 Kings 22:7 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no longer a prophet[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] of the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] here whom we can inquire[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] of?”[/FONT]
 
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1 Kings 22:8 (ESV)
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”
 
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[TD]Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, king of Judah were seated each on his throne, dressed in [their] attire in a threshing-floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.[/TD]
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[TD="class: hebrew, align: right"]יוּמֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֡ל וִיהוֹשָׁפָ֣ט מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֡ה ישְׁבִים֩ אִ֨ישׁ עַל־כִּסְא֜וֹ מְלֻבָּשִׁ֚ים בְּגָדִים֙ בְּגֹ֔רֶן פֶּ֖תַח שַׁ֣עַר שֹׁמְר֑וֹן וְכָ֨ל־הַנְּבִיאִ֔ים מִֽתְנַבְּאִ֖ים לִפְנֵיהֶֽם:[/TD]
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22;10
 
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1 Kings 22:11 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]Now Zedekiah[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] son of Kenaanah had made iron horns[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] and he declared, “This is what the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] says: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.’”[/FONT]
 
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1 Kings 22:12
New International Version (NIV)


All the other prophets were prophesying the same thing. “Attack Ramoth Gilead and be victorious,” they said, “for the LORD will give it into the king’s hand.”
 
1 Kings 22:13 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the other prophets without exception are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably.”[/FONT]
 
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22:13
Now the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah, spoke to him saying, "Behold, the words of the prophets are unanimously favorable to the king. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and you shall speak favorably."


Can't purchase Grace or the Holy Spirit
 
22:13
Now the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah, spoke to him saying, "Behold, the words of the prophets are unanimously favorable to the king. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and you shall speak favorably."


Can't purchase Grace or the Holy Spirit
22:14
And Micaiah said, "As the Lord lives, for what the Lord will say to me, that will I speak."
 
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