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But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him?

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh: but I hate him; for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Don't let the king say so.

And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle.

And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.

and said to the judges, Consider what you do: for you do not judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

And now, look, the sons of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and did not destroy them;

O our God, will you not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither do we know what to do: but our eyes are on you.

and he said, Listen, all Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, and king Jehoshaphat: Thus says Yahweh to you, Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he was the first-born.

but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem prostitute, like the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers of your father's house, who were better than yourself:

He was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she did not slay him.

But let none come into the house of Yahweh, save the priests, and those that minister of the Levites; they shall come in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the charge of Yahweh.

But Jehoiada waxed old and was full of days, and he died; he was a hundred and thirty years old when he died.

Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

Thus Joash the king didn't remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, Yahweh look at it, and require it.

And when they had departed for him (for they left him very sick), his own slaves conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, but not with a perfect heart.