blood of Naboth
there they shall also lick your blood."'" Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you
found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have. And Jehovah has declared:
'The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the district of Jezreel.'" When Ahab
heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh
and ate no food.

MICAIAH'S COURAGE IN TELLING THE TRUTH

For three years there was no war between Aram and Israel. But in the
third year, when Jehoshaphat the ruler of Judah came to visit the ruler
of Israel, Ahab said to his followers, "Do you not know that Ramoth in
Gilead belongs to us; yet we sit still instead of taking it from the
king of Aram?" Then he asked Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to attack
Ramoth in Gilead?" Jehoshaphat replied, "I am with you, my people are as
your people, my horses as your horses."

And Jehoshaphat said to the ruler of Israel, "Ask now what Jehovah has
to say." So Ahab gathered the prophets together (in all about four
hundred men), and asked them, "Shall I go to fight against Ramoth in
Gilead or shall I not?" They said, "Go up; for Jehovah will give it into
your hands." But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there any other prophet of
Jehovah, that we may ask him?" The ruler of Israel answered, "There is
another by whom we may ask of Jehovah, Micaiah, the son of Imlah, but I
hate him; for he prophesies for me nothing good, but only evil."
Jehoshaphat said, "Do not say so."

Then the ruler of Israel called a servant and said, "Bring quickly
Micaiah, the son of Imlah." The messenger who went to call Micaiah said
to him, "See, the prophets have all of them promised the ruler of Israel
success. Agree with them, and prophesy success." But Micaiah said, "As
surely as Jehovah lives, I will speak what he says to me."

When he came to Ahab, he said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth in
Gilead to fight, or shall we not?" He answered him, "Go up and conquer!
Jehovah will give it into your hands!" But Ahab said to him, "How many
times shall I warn you to speak nothing to me in the name of Jehovah but
the truth?" He said, "I saw all the Israelites scattered upon the
mountains as sheep that have no shepherd. And Jehovah said, 'These have
no master; let each of them go home in peace!'"

The ruler of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you that he
would prophesy for me nothing good, but only evil?" Micaiah said, "Hear
then the message from Jehovah: I saw Jehovah sitting on his throne and
all the