3 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.’
4 But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, ‘First seek the counsel of the Lord.’
5 So the king of Israel brought together the prophets – four hundred men – and asked them, ‘Shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I not?’‘Go,’ they answered, ‘for God will give it into the king’s hand.’
6 But Jehoshaphat asked, ‘Is there no longer a prophet of the Lord here whom we can enquire of?’
7 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, ‘There is still one prophet through whom we can enquire of the Lord, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.’‘The king should not say such a thing,’ Jehoshaphat replied.
8 So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, ‘Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.’
9 Dressed in their royal robes, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing-floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them.