host of heaven standing about him. And Jehovah said, 'Who will
deceive Ahab, so that he will go up and fall at Ramoth in Gilead?' One
suggested one thing and another, another, until a spirit came out and
stood before Jehovah and said, 'I will deceive him.' Jehovah said to
him, 'By what means?' He said, 'I will go out and become a lying spirit
in the mouth of all his prophets.' Then Jehovah said, 'You shall succeed
in deceiving him. Go out and do so.' So Jehovah has now put a lying
spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, for he has decided
to bring evil upon you."

Then Zedekiah came near and struck Micaiah a blow on the cheek and said,
"How was it that the spirit of Jehovah went from me to speak to you?"
Micaiah replied, "Indeed, you shall see on the day when you shall go
from one hiding-place to another." Then the ruler of Israel said, "Take
Micaiah back to Amon, the governor of the city, and to Joash, the
ruler's son, and say, 'This is the ruler's command: Put this fellow in
prison and feed him with a scanty fare of bread and water until I return
successful.'" Micaiah said, "If you indeed return successful, Jehovah
has not spoken by me."

Then Ahab, the ruler of Israel, and Jehoshaphat, the ruler of Judah,
went up to Ramoth in Gilead. And the ruler of Israel said to
Jehoshaphat, "I will dress myself so that no one will know me, and go
into the battle, but you can put on your robes."

But a certain man shot an arrow, and by chance it struck the ruler of
Israel between the breastplate and the lower part of his armor. So Ahab
said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn about and carry me out of the
battle, for I am wounded." But the battle grew more intense, so that
Ahab stayed until evening propped up in his chariot in the sight of the
Arameans, and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the
chariot. And that evening he died.

About sunset the cry went out through the army, "Each to his town and
each to his land, for the ruler is dead!" So they went to Samaria and
buried Ahab there. And when they washed the chariot by the pool of
Samaria, the dogs licked up his blood just as Jehovah had said.

THE MANTLE OF ELIJAH

When Jehovah took up Elijah to heaven in a whirlwind, he was going with
Elisha from Gilgal. And Elijah said to Elisha, "Stay here, for Jehovah
has sent me as far as Bethel." But Elisha said, "As surely as Jehovah
lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went down to
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