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Then he turned to Jehoshaphat and asked him, “Will you send your army with mine to recover Ramoth-gilead?”

And King Jehoshaphat of Judah replied, “Of course! You and I are brothers; my people are yours to command, and my horses are at your service. But,” he added, “we should ask the Lord first, to be sure of what he wants us to do.”

So King Ahab summoned his 400 heathen prophets[a] and asked them, “Shall I attack Ramoth-gilead, or not?”

And they all said, “Yes, go ahead, for God will help you conquer it.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 22:6 Ahab summoned his 400 heathen prophets, implied. These were evidently the 400 Asherah priests left alive by Elijah at Carmel, though the 450 prophets of Baal were slain. See 18:19 and 40.

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