1Now Josaphat was rich and very glorious, and was joined by affinity to Achab.

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2 Chronicles 17:5, 2 Chronicles 17:5, 2 Chronicles 21:6, 2 Chronicles 21:6, 2 Kings 8:18

2And he went down to him after some years to Samaria: and Achab at his coming killed sheep and oxen in abundance for him and the people that came with him: and he persuaded him to go up to Ramoth Galaad.

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2 Kings 9:1, 1 Kings 1:9, 2 Chronicles 19:2, 2 Kings 9:1, 1 Kings 1:9

3And Achab king of Israel said to Josaphat king of Juda: Come with me to Ramoth Galaad. And he answered him: Thou art as I am, and my people as thy people, and we will be with thee in the war.

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2 Kings 3:7, 1 Kings 22:4, 2 Kings 3:7, 1 Kings 22:4, Ephesians 5:11

4And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I beseech thee, at present the word of the Lord.

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Jeremiah 21:2, Jeremiah 21:2, 1 Samuel 23:4, 2 Samuel 5:19, 1 Samuel 23:2

5So the king of Israel gathered together of the prophets four hundred men, and he said to them: Shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or shall we forbear? But they said: Go up, and God will deliver into the king's hand.

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2 Chronicles 18:20, 2 Chronicles 18:21, Jeremiah 28:1, Jeremiah 28:17, 2 Kings 3:13

6And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire also of him?

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2 Kings 3:11, 2 Kings 3:13, 1 Kings 22:7, 1 Kings 22:9, 2 Kings 3:11

7And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: There is one man, of whom we may ask the will of the Lord: but I hate him, for he never prophesieth good to me, but always evil: and it is Micheas the son of Jemla. And Josaphat said: Speak not thus, O king.

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Micah 2:7, Amos 5:10, Micah 2:7, Amos 5:10, 1 Kings 21:20

8And the king of Israel called one of the eunuchs, and said to him: Call quickly Micheas the son of Jemla.

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1 Samuel 8:15, 2 Chronicles 18:25, 2 Chronicles 18:26, 1 Kings 22:9, Isaiah 39:7

9Now the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda, both sat on their thrones, clothed in royal robes, and they sat in the open court by the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.

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Daniel 7:9, 2 Chronicles 18:29, 1 Kings 22:10, 1 Kings 22:12, Matthew 6:29

10And Sedecias the son of Chanaana made him horns of iron, and said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou destroy it.

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2 Timothy 3:8, Jeremiah 29:21, Jeremiah 23:25, Ezekiel 22:28, Ezekiel 13:7

11And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, and said: Go up to Ramoth Galaad, and thou shalt prosper, and the Lord will deliver them into the king's hand.

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Proverbs 24:24, Proverbs 24:25, 2 Peter 2:1, 2 Peter 2:3, Revelation 19:20

12And the messenger that went to call Micheas, said to him: Behold the words of all the prophets with one mouth declare good to the king: I beseech thee therefore let not thy word disagree with them, and speak thou also good success.

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Joshua 9:2, Amos 7:13, Micah 2:11, 1 Corinthians 2:14, 1 Corinthians 2:16

13And Micheas answered him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever my God shall say to me, that will I speak.

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Numbers 22:35, Numbers 22:35, Numbers 22:18, Numbers 22:20, Numbers 24:13

14So he came to the king: and the king said to him: Micheas, shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or forbear? And he answered him: Go up, for all shall succeed prosperously, and the enemies shall be delivered into your hands.

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1 Kings 22:15, 1 Kings 18:27, Matthew 26:45, Lamentations 4:21, Ecclesiastes 11:1

15And the king said: I adjure thee again and again to say nothing but the truth to me, in the name of the Lord.

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Acts 19:13, Matthew 26:63, Mark 5:7, 1 Kings 22:16, 1 Samuel 14:24

16Then he said: I saw all Israel scattered in the mountains, like sheep without a shepherd: and the Lord said: These have no masters: let every man return to his own house in peace.

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Matthew 9:36, Matthew 9:36, Mark 6:34, Ezekiel 34:8, 1 Kings 22:17

17And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not tell thee that this man would not prophesy me any good, but evil?

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1 Kings 22:18, Jeremiah 43:2, Jeremiah 43:3, 2 Chronicles 18:7, Proverbs 29:1

18Then he said: Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on the right hand and on the left,

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Daniel 7:9, Daniel 7:9, Isaiah 6:1, Isaiah 6:5, Isaiah 6:1

19And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall in Ramoth Galaad? And when one spoke in this manner, and another otherwise:

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2 Thessalonians 2:11, 2 Thessalonians 2:12, Isaiah 54:16, 2 Chronicles 25:8, Ezekiel 14:9

20There came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means wilt thou deceive him?

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Job 1:6, Job 1:6, Job 2:1, 2 Corinthians 11:13, 2 Corinthians 11:15

21And he answered: I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive, and shalt prevail: go out, and do so.

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John 8:44, John 8:44, Genesis 3:4, Genesis 3:5, 1 John 4:6

22Now therefore behold the Lord hath put a spirit of lying in the mouth of all thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.

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Ezekiel 14:9, Isaiah 19:14, Ezekiel 14:9, Isaiah 19:14, Job 12:16

23And Sedecias the son of Chanaana came, and struck Micheas on the cheek and said: Which way went the spirit of the Lord from me, to speak to thee?

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Mark 14:65, Jeremiah 20:2, Mark 14:65, Jeremiah 20:2, Matthew 26:67

24And Micheas said: Thou thyself shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go in from chamber to chamber, to hide thyself.

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Jeremiah 29:21, Jeremiah 29:22, Jeremiah 29:32, Isaiah 26:20, 1 Kings 20:30

25And the king of Israel commanded, saying: Take Micheas, and carry him to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joas the son of Amelech,

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2 Chronicles 18:8, 2 Chronicles 18:8, Jeremiah 38:6, Jeremiah 38:7, 2 Chronicles 34:8

26And say: Thus saith the king: Put this fellow in prison, and give him bread and water in a small quantity till I return in peace.

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2 Chronicles 16:10, 2 Chronicles 16:10, Psalms 10:5, Jeremiah 20:2, Jeremiah 20:3

27And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.

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Amos 9:10, Mark 7:14, Micah 1:2, Numbers 16:29, Matthew 15:10

28So the king of Israel and Josaphat king of Juda went up to Ramoth Galaad.

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1 Kings 22:29, 1 Kings 22:33, 1 Kings 22:29, 1 Kings 22:33

29And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: I will change my dress, and so I will go to the battle, but put thou on thy own garments. And the king of Israel having changed his dress, went to the battle.

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1 Samuel 28:8, 1 Samuel 28:8, 1 Kings 20:38, 2 Chronicles 35:22, 2 Chronicles 35:23

30Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his cavalry, saying: Fight ye not with small, or great, but with the king of Israel only.

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1 Kings 20:42, Deuteronomy 1:17, Genesis 19:11, 1 Kings 20:33, 1 Kings 20:34

31So when the captains of the cavalry saw Josaphat, they said: This is the king of Israel. And they surrounded him to attack him: but he cried to the Lord, and he helped him, and turned them away from him.

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2 Chronicles 13:14, 2 Chronicles 13:14, Psalms 118:13, Psalms 118:13, Psalms 94:17

32For when the captains of the cavalry saw, that he was not the king of Israel, they left him.

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1 Kings 22:33, 1 Kings 22:33

33And it happened that one of the people shot an arrow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the neck and the shoulders, and he said to his chariot man: Turn thy hand, and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.

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2 Samuel 15:11, 1 Kings 22:34, 1 Kings 22:35, 2 Chronicles 35:23, 2 Samuel 15:11

34And the fight was ended that day: but the king of Israel stood in his chariot against the Syrians until the evening, and died at the sunset.

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Proverbs 13:21, Proverbs 13:21, 2 Chronicles 18:16, 2 Chronicles 18:27, Numbers 32:23