The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 17:18 (RSV)

and next to him Jeho′zabad with a hundred and eighty thousand armed for war.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 17:19 (ERV)
These were they that waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Chronicles 18:1 (NIV)


Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Chronicles 18:2 (NIV)

Some years later he went down to see Ahab in Samaria. Ahab slaughtered many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him and urged him to attack Ramoth Gilead.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Chronicles 18:3 (NIV)

Ahab king of Israel asked Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me against Ramoth Gilead?”

Jehoshaphat replied, “I am as you are, and my people as your people; we will join you in the war.”

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 18:4 (ESV)

And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Inquire first for the word of the Lord.”

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 18:5 (ESV)

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for God will give it into the hand of the king.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 18:6 (KJV)
But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 18:7 (KJV)

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 18:8 (KJV)

And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 18:9 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they sat in a threshing-floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 18:10 (NIV)
Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns, and he declared, "This is what the LORD says: 'With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.'"

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 18:11 (ERV)
And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 18:12 (ESV)

And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king. Let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 18:13 (ESV)

But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what my God says, that I will speak.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 18:14 (King James 2000 Bible)
And when he had come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go you up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 18:15 (ESV)

But the king said to him, “How many times shall I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord?”

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 18:16 (ESV)

And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the Lord said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.’”

 

[posthuman]

Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, ​

“Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?” ​

(2 Chronicles 18:17 NASB)​

 

[posthuman]

Micaiah said, ​

“Therefore, hear the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, ​

and all the host of heaven standing on His right and on His left. ​

(2 Chronicles 18:18 NASB)​