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         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Micaiah Prophesies Against Ahab</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honor, and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Some years later he went down to see Ahab in Samaria. Ahab slaughtered many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him and urged him to attack Ramoth Gilead. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Ahab king of Israel asked Jehoshaphat king of Judah, &#8220;Will you go with me against Ramoth Gilead?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.18.3"><span class="content">Jehoshaphat replied, &#8220;I am as you are, and my people as your people; we will join you in the war.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, &#8220;First seek the counsel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So the king of Israel brought together the prophets&#8212;four hundred men&#8212;and asked them, &#8220;Shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I not?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.18.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Go,&#8221; they answered, &#8220;for God will give it into the king&#8217;s hand.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But Jehoshaphat asked, &#8220;Is there no longer a prophet of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> here whom we can inquire of?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, &#8220;There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.18.7"><span class="content">&#8220;The king should not say such a thing,&#8221; Jehoshaphat replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.18.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, &#8220;Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Dressed in their royal robes, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns, and he declared, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.18.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">All the other prophets were prophesying the same thing. &#8220;Attack Ramoth Gilead and be victorious,&#8221; they said, &#8220;for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will give it into the king&#8217;s hand.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.18.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, &#8220;Look, the other prophets without exception are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But Micaiah said, &#8220;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, I can tell him only what my God says.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When he arrived, the king asked him, &#8220;Micaiah, shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I not?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.18.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Attack and be victorious,&#8221; he answered, &#8220;for they will be given into your hand.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The king said to him, &#8220;How many times must I make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.18.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Micaiah answered, &#8220;I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8216;These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.18.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t I tell you that he never prophesies anything good about me, but only bad?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Micaiah continued, &#8220;Therefore hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: I saw the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sitting on his throne with all the multitudes of heaven standing on his right and on his left. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8216;Who will entice Ahab king of Israel into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.18.19"><span class="content">&#8220;One suggested this, and another that. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and said, &#8216;I will entice him.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.18.20"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;By what means?&#8217; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.18.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will go and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,&#8217; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.18.21"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You will succeed in enticing him,&#8217; said the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8216;Go and do it.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.18.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;So now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has put a deceiving spirit in the mouths of these prophets of yours. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has decreed disaster for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.18.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up and slapped Micaiah in the face. &#8220;Which way did the spirit from</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Spirit of</span></span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> go when he went from me to speak to you?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.18.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Micaiah replied, &#8220;You will find out on the day you go to hide in an inner room.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.18.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.18.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The king of Israel then ordered, &#8220;Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon the ruler of the city and to Joash the king&#8217;s son, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CH.18.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and say, &#8216;This is what the king says: Put this fellow in prison and give him nothing but bread and water until I return safely.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CH.18.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CH.18.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Micaiah declared, &#8220;If you ever return safely, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has not spoken through me.&#8221; Then he added, &#8220;Mark my words, all you people!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ahab Killed at Ramoth Gilead</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CH.18.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2CH.18.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2CH.18.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, &#8220;I will enter the battle in disguise, but you wear your royal robes.&#8221; So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2CH.18.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2CH.18.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Now the king of Aram had ordered his chariot commanders, &#8220;Do not fight with anyone, small or great, except the king of Israel.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2CH.18.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they thought, &#8220;This is the king of Israel.&#8221; So they turned to attack him, but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> helped him. God drew them away from him, </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2CH.18.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">for when the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel, they stopped pursuing him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2CH.18.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2CH.18.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the breastplate and the scale armor. The king told the chariot driver, &#8220;Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I&#8217;ve been wounded.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2CH.18.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">All day long the battle raged, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot facing the Arameans until evening. Then at sunset he died.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">144,000 Sealed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="content">from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="content">from the tribe of Gad 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Asher 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="content">from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="content">from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="content">from the tribe of Levi 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="content">from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="content">from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="content">from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Great Multitude in White Robes</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And they cried out in a loud voice:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Salvation belongs to our God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">who sits on the throne,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">and to the Lamb.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">saying:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Amen!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">Praise and glory</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">and wisdom and thanks and honor</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">and power and strength</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">be to our God for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then one of the elders asked me, &#8220;These in white robes&#8212;who are they, and where did they come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I answered, &#8220;Sir, you know.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.7.14"><span class="content">And he said, &#8220;These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">&#8220;they are before the throne of God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">and serve him day and night in his temple;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">and he who sits on the throne</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">will shelter them with his presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8216;Never again will they hunger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">never again will they thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">The sun will not beat down on them,&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:16 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 49:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">nor any scorching heat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the Lamb at the center of the throne</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="content">will be their shepherd;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="content">&#8216;he will lead them to springs of living water.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:17 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 49:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="content">&#8216;And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:17 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 25:8</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div>
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