Liber Primus Regum

I Regum, chapter 22, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 22 Vulgate

   1 Transierunt igitur tres anni absque bello inter Syriam et Israel.
   2 In anno autem tertio descendit Iosaphat rex ludae ad regem Israel,
   3 dixitque rex Israel ad servos suos: "Ignoratis quod nostra sit Ramoth Galaad et neglegimus tollere eam de manu regis Syriae?".
   4 Et ait ad Iosaphat: "Veniesne mecum ad proeliandum in Ramoth Galaad?".
   5 Dixitque Iosaphat ad regem Israel: "Sicut ego sum, ita et tu; populus meus et populus tuus unum sunt, et equites mei et equites tui". Dixitque Iosaphat ad regem Israel: "Quaere, oro te, hodie sermonem Domini".
   6 Congregavit ergo rex Israel prophetas quadringentos circiter viros et ait ad eos: "Ire debeo in Ramoth Galaad ad bellandum, an quiescere?". Qui responderunt: "Ascende, et dabit Dominus in manu regis".
   7 Dixit autem Iosaphat: "Non est hic et alius propheta Domini, ut interrogemus per eum?".
   8 Et ait rex Israel ad Iosaphat: "Remansit vir unus, per quem possimus interrogare Dominum; sed ego odi eum, quia non prophetat mihi bonum sed malum: Michaeas filius Iemla". Cui Iosaphat ait: "Ne loquaris ita, rex".
   9 Vocavit ergo rex Israel eunuchum quendam et dixit ei: "Festina adducere Michaeam filium Iemla".
   10 Rex autem Israel et Iosaphat rex Iudae sedebat unusquisque in solio suo vestiti cultu regio in area iuxta ostium portae Samariae; et universi prophetae prophetabant in conspectu eorum.
   11 Fecit quoque sibi Sedecias filius Chanaana cornua ferrea et ait: "Haec dicit Dominus: His ventilabis Syriam, donec deleas eam".
   12 Omnesque prophetae similiter prophetabant dicentes: "Ascende in Ramoth Galaad et vade prospere, et tradet Dominus in manu regis".
   13 Nuntius vero, qui ierat ut vocaret Michaeam, locutus est ad eum dicens: "Ecce sermones prophetarum ore uno regi bona praedicant; sit ergo sermo tuus similis eorum, et loquere bona".
   14 Cui Michaeas ait: "Vivit Dominus quia, quodcumque dixerit mihi Dominus, hoc loquar!".
   15 Venit itaque ad regem, et ait illi rex: "Michaea, ire debemus in Ramoth Galaad ad proeliandum, an cessare?". Cui ille respondit: "Ascende et vade prospere, et tradet Dominus in manu regis".
   16 Dixit autem rex ad eum: "Iterum atque iterum adiuro te, ut non loquaris mihi, nisi quod verum est in nomine Domini".
   17 Et ille ait: "Vidi cunctum Israel dispersum in montibus quasi oves non habentes pastorem. Et ait Dominus: "Non habent isti dominum; revertatur unusquisque in domum suam in pace" ".
   18 Dixit ergo rex Israel ad Iosaphat: "Numquid non dixi tibi quia non prophetat mihi bonum sed semper malum?".
   19 Ille vero addens ait: "Propterea audi sermonem Domini: Vidi Dominum sedentem super solium suum et omnem exercitum caeli assistentem ei a dextris et a sinistris.
   20 Et ait Dominus: "Quis decipiet Achab, ut ascendat et cadat in Ramoth Galaad?". Et dixit unus verba huiuscemodi et alius aliter.
   21 Egressus est autem spiritus et stetit coram Domino et ait: "Ego decipiam illum". Cui locutus est Dominus: "In quo?".
   22 Et ille ait: "Egrediar et ero spiritus mendax in ore omnium prophetarum eius". Et dixit Dominus: "Decipies et praevalebis; egredere et fac ita".
   23 Nunc igitur ecce dedit Dominus spiritum mendacii in ore omnium prophetarum tuorum, qui hic sunt, et Dominus locutus est contra te malum".
   24 Accessit autem Sedecias filius Chanaana et percussit Michaeam in maxillam et dixit: "Quomodo transivit spiritus Domini a me, ut loqueretur tibi?".
   25 Et ait Michaeas: "Visurus es in die illa, quando ingredieris cubiculum intra cubiculum, ut abscondaris".
   26 Et ait rex Israel: "Tolle Michaeam, et maneat apud Amon principem civitatis et apud Ioas filium regis,
   27 et dic eis: "Haec dicit rex: Mittite virum istum in carcerem et sustentate eum pane tribulationis et aqua angustiae, donec revertar in pace" ".
   28 Dixitque Michaeas: "Si reversus fueris in pace, non est locutus Dominus in me". Et ait: "Audite, populi omnes!".
   29 Ascendit itaque rex Israel et Iosaphat rex Iudae in Ramoth Galaad.
   30 Dixitque rex Israel ad Iosaphat: "Mutato aspectu ineundum est proelium; tu autem induere vestibus tuis". Porro rex Israel mutavit aspectum et ingressus est bellum.
   31 Rex autem Syriae praeceperat principibus curruum triginta duobus dicens: "Non pugnabitis contra minorem et maiorem quempiam, nisi contra regem Israel solum".
   32 Cum ergo vidissent principes curruum Iosaphat, suspicati sunt quod ipse esset rex Israel et impetu facto pugnabant contra eum. Et exclamavit Iosaphat;
   33 intellexeruntque principes curruum quod non esset rex Israel et cessaverunt ab eo.
   34 Vir autem quidam tetendit arcum in incertum sagittam dirigens et percussit regem Israel inter iuncturas et loricam. At ille dixit aurigae suo: "Verte manum tuam et eice me de exercitu, quia graviter vulneratus sum".
   35 Aggravatum est ergo proelium in die illa; et rex Israel stabat in curru suo contra Syros et mortuus est vespere: fluebat autem sanguis plagae in sinum currus.
   36 Et clamor insonuit in universo exercitu ad solis occasum: "Unusquisque revertatur in civitatem et in terram suam!".
   37 Mortuus est igitur rex et perlatus est Samariam; sepelieruntque regem in Samaria.
   38 Et laverunt currum eius in piscina Samariae; et linxerunt canes sanguinem eius, et scorta laverunt se iuxta verbum Domini, quod locutus fuerat.
   39 Reliqua vero gestorum Achab et universa, quae fecit, et domus eburnea, quam aedificavit, cunctaeque urbes, quas exstruxit, nonne haec scripta sunt in libro annalium regum Israel?
   40 Dormivit ergo Achab cum patribus suis; et regnavit Ochozias filius eius pro eo.
   41 Iosaphat vero filius Asa regnare coeperat super Iudam anno quarto Achab regis Israel;
   42 triginta quinque annorum erat, cum regnare coepisset, et viginti quinque annos regnavit in Ierusalem. Nomen matris eius Azuba filia Selachi.
   43 Et ambulavit in omni via Asa patris sui et non declinavit ex ea; fecitque, quod rectum erat in conspectu Domini.
   44 Verumtamen excelsa non abstulit; adhuc enim populus sacrificabat et adolebat in excelsis.
   45 Pacemque fecit Iosaphat cum rege Israel.
   46 Reliqua autem gestorum Iosaphat et opera eius, quae fortiter gessit, et proelia, nonne haec scripta sunt in libro annalium regum Iudae?
   47 Sed et reliquias prostibulorum, qui remanserant in diebus Asa patris eius, abstulit de terra.
   48 Nec erat tunc rex in Edom sed praefectus regius.
   49 Rex vero Iosaphat fecerat naves Tharsis, quae navigarent in Ophir propter aurum; et ire non potuerunt, quia confractae sunt in Asiongaber.
   50 Tunc ait Ochozias filius Achab ad Iosaphat: "Vadant servi mei cum servis tuis in navibus". Et noluit Iosaphat.
   51 Dormivitque Iosaphat cum patribus suis et sepultus est cum eis in civitate David patris sui; regnavitque Ioram filius eius pro eo.
   52 Ochozias autem filius Achab regnare coeperat super Israel in Samaria anno septimo decimo Iosaphat regis Iudae regnavitque super Israel duobus annis.
   53 Et fecit malum in conspectu Domini et ambulavit in via patris sui et matris suae et in via Ieroboam filii Nabat, qui peccare fecit Israel;
   54 servivit quoque Baal et adoravit eum et irritavit Dominum, Deum Israel, iuxta omnia, quae fecerat pater eius.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
   2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
   3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is our's, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
   4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
   5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
   6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
   7 And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
   8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
   9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
   10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
   11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
   12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the king's hand.
   13 And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.
   14 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.
   15 ¶ So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
   16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?
   17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
   18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
   19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
   20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
   21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
   22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
   23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
   24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
   25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
   26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
   27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
   28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.
   29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
   30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
   31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
   32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
   33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
   34 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
   35 And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
   36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.
   37 ¶ So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
   38 And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
   39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
   40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
   41 ¶ And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
   42 Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
   43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
   44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
   45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
   46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
   47 There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
   48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
   49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
   50 ¶ And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
   51 ¶ Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.
   52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
   53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.