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But the rest ran away into the city of Aphek. And the wall fell on 27,000 men who were left. Ben-hadad ran away and came to a room in the city.

Now a certain son of the men who spoke for God said to another by the word of the Lord, "Hit me." But the man would not hit him.

But while your servant was doing things here and there, the man got away." The king of Israel said to him, "So you must be punished. You yourself have decided it."

But Naboth said to Ahab, "May the Lord keep me from giving you what I have received from my fathers."

He said to her, "Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite. I said to him, ‘Give me your grape-field for money. Or I will give you another field for it, if you like.' But he said, ‘I will not give you my grape-field.'"

When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been killed with stones, she said to Ahab, "Get up and take the grape-field of Naboth the Jezreelite for your own, the field he would not sell to you. For Naboth is not alive, but dead."

"Do you see how Ahab has got rid of his pride before Me? Because he has gotten rid of his pride, I will not bring trouble to him while he is alive. But I will bring trouble upon his house in his son's days."

But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not another man who speaks for the Lord here, that we may ask him?"

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is only one other man whom we may ask of the Lord, but I hate him. He does not speak anything good about me, only bad. He is Micaiah the son of Imlah." But Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say that."

But Micaiah said, "As the Lord lives, I will say what the Lord says to me."

Then the king said to him, "How many times must I tell you to speak nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord?"

Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not speak good of me, but bad?"

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will dress so no one will know who I am, and will go to battle. But you put on your king's clothing." So the king of Israel dressed so no one would know who he was, and went into battle.

Now the king of Syria had told the thirty-two captains of his war-wagons, "Do not fight with the small or strong. But only fight with the king of Israel."

But a certain man happened to shoot an arrow and hit the king of Israel between the parts of his battle-clothes. So Ahab said to the driver of his war-wagon, "Turn around and take me out of the battle. For I am hurt."

He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He did not turn aside from it. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. But the high places were not taken away. The people still gave gifts and burned special perfume on the high places.

Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold. But they did not go. For the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.

Then Ahab's son Ahaziah said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships." But Jehoshaphat was not willing.

But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Get up and go meet the men sent from the king of Samaria. Say to them, ‘Are you going to ask Baal-zebub the god of Ekron because there is no God in Israel?'

Fire came down from heaven and destroyed the first two captains with their armies of fifty. But now let my life be of great worth in your eyes."