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1 Kings 22:6-8
New Catholic Bible
1 Kings 22:6-8
New Catholic Bible
6 [a]The king of Israel gathered together the prophets, four hundred of them, and he said to them, “Shall I go up to fight at Ramoth-gilead or shall I desist?” They answered, “Go up, for the Lord will deliver it into your hands.”
7 But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there not another prophet of the Lord from whom we can inquire?” 8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man by whom we can inquire of the Lord, but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good things for me, only evil. He is Micaiah, the son of Imlah.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let the king not say this.”
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- 1 Kings 22:6 Elijah had the 450 prophets of Baal put to death (1 Ki 18:19); he did not kill all of the false prophets. Jehoshaphat’s request for another prophet implies that he was rejecting the 400 remaining, but in the end, both he and Ahab listen to the heathen prophets.
