g that he should be slain at three days'
journey distance: "and [said he] you shall soon know whether he be a
true prophet, and hath the power of the Divine Spirit; for I will smite
him, and let him then hurt my hand, as Jadon caused the hand of Jeroboam
the king to wither when he would have caught him; for I suppose thou
hast certainly heard of that accident." So when, upon his smiting
Micaiah, no harm happened to him, Ahab took courage, and readily led his
army against the king of Syria; for, as I suppose, fate was too hard for
him, and made him believe that the false prophets spake truer than the
true one, that it might take an occasion of bringing him to his end.
However, Zedekiah made horns of iron, and said to Ahab, that God made
those horns signals, that by them he should overthrow all Syria. But
Micaiah replied, that Zedekiah, in a few days, should go from one secret
chamber to another to hide himself, that he might escape the punishment
of his lying. Then did the king give orders that they should take
Micaiah away, and guard him to Amon, the governor of the city, and to
give him nothing but bread and water.

5. Then did Ahab, and Jehoshaphat the king of Jerusalem, take their
forces, and marched to Ramoth a city of Gilead; and when the king of
Syria heard of this expedition, he brought out his army to oppose them,
and pitched his camp not far from Ramoth. Now Ahalx and Jehoshaphat had
agreed that Ahab should lay aside his royal robes, but that the king of
Jerusalem should put on his [Ahab's] proper habit, and stand before the
army, in order to disprove, by this artifice, what Micaiah had foretold.
[43] But Ahab's fate found him out without his robes; for Benhadad, the
king of Assyria, had charged his army, by the means of their commanders,
to kill nobody else but only the king of Israel. So when the Syrians,
upon their joining battle with the Israelites, saw Jehoshaphat stand
before the army, and conjectured that he was Ahab, they fell violently
upon him, and encompassed him round; but when they were near, and knew
that it was not he, they all returned back; and while the fight
lasted from the morning till late in the evening, and the Syrians were
conquerors, they killed nobody, as their king had commanded them. And
when they sought to kill Ahab alone, but could not find him, there was
a young nobleman belonging to king Benhadad, whose name was Naaman;
he drew his bow against the enemy, and wounded the king throu