In Context

3 Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, |Will you go with me to Ramoth Gilead?| He answered him, |I am as you are, and my people as your people. We will be with you in the war.|

4 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, |Please inquire first for the word of Yahweh.|

5 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, |Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?| They said, |Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king.|

6 But Jehoshaphat said, |Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him?|

7 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. He is Micaiah the son of Imla.| Jehoshaphat said, |Don't let the king say so.|

8 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, |Get Micaiah the son of Imla quickly.|

2 Chronicles 18:6 in Other Translations