In Context

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.|

9 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

10 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, |Thus says Yahweh, 'With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.'|

2 Chronicles 18:8 in Other Translations