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First Book of Kings, Chapter 22

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Chapter 22 of 1 Kings—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ And for three years they continued dwelling without war between Syria and Israel.
  2. And it came about in the third year that Je·hoshʹa·phat[a]1 the king of Judah proceeded to go down to the king of Israel.
  3. Then the king of Israel said to his servants: “Do YOU really know that Raʹmoth-gilʹe·ad2 belongs to us? Yet we are hesitating to take it out of the hand of the king of Syria.”
  4. And he went on to say to Je·hoshʹa·phat: “Will you go with me to the fight at Raʹmoth-gilʹe·ad?”3 At this Je·hoshʹa·phat said to the king of Israel: “I am the same as you. My people are the same as your people.4 My horses are the same as your horses.”
  5. ¶ However, Je·hoshʹa·phat went on to say to the king of Israel: “Inquire,5 please, first of all for the word of Jehovah.”
  6. So the king of Israel collected the prophets together,6 about four hundred men, and said to them: “Shall I go against Raʹmoth-gilʹe·ad in war, or shall I refrain?” And they began to say: “Go up,7 and Jehovah[b] will give it into the king’s hand.”
  7. ¶ But Je·hoshʹa·phat said: “Is there not here a prophet of Jehovah still? Then let us inquire through him.”8
  8. At that the king of Israel said to Je·hoshʹa·phat: “There is still one man through whom to inquire of Jehovah;9 but I myself certainly hate him,10 for he does not prophesy good things concerning me but bad11—Mi·caiʹah[c] the son of Imʹlah.” However, Je·hoshʹa·phat said: “Do not let the king say a thing like that.”12
  9. ¶ Accordingly the king of Israel called a certain court official13 and said: “Do bring Mi·caiʹah the son of Imʹlah quickly.”14
  10. Now the king of Israel and Je·hoshʹa·phat the king of Judah were sitting each one on his throne, clothed in garments,15 in the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Sa·marʹi·a; and all the prophets were acting as prophets before them.16
  11. Then Zed·e·kiʹah the son of Che·naʹa·nah made for himself horns of iron and said: “This is what Jehovah has said,17 ‘With these you will push the Syrians until you exterminate them.’”18
  12. And all the other prophets were prophesying the same as that, saying: “Go up to Raʹmoth-gilʹe·ad and prove successful; and Jehovah will certainly give it into the king’s hand.”19
  13. ¶ And the messenger that had gone to call Mi·caiʹah spoke to him, saying: “Look, now! The words of the prophets are unanimously[d] of good to the king. Let your word, please, become like the word of one of them, and you must speak good.”20
  14. But Mi·caiʹah said: “As Jehovah is living,21 what Jehovah will say to me, that is what I shall speak.”22
  15. Then he came in to the king, and the king proceeded to say to him: “Mi·caiʹah, shall we go to Raʹmoth-gilʹe·ad in war, or shall we refrain?” At once he said to him: “Go up and prove successful; and Jehovah will certainly give it into the king’s hand.”23
  16. At that the king said to him: “For how many times am I putting you under oath that you should not speak to me anything but truth in the name of Jehovah?”24
  17. So he said: “I certainly see all the Israelites scattered25 on the mountains, like sheep that have no shepherd.26 And Jehovah went on to say: ‘These have no masters.[e] Let them go back each one to his house in peace.’”27
  18. ¶ Then the king of Israel said to Je·hoshʹa·phat: “Did I not say to you, ‘He will prophesy concerning me, not good things, but bad’?”28
  19. ¶ And he went on to say: “Therefore hear the word of Jehovah:29 I certainly see Jehovah sitting upon his throne30 and all the army of the heavens standing by him, to his right and to his left.31
  20. And Jehovah proceeded to say, ‘Who will fool Aʹhab, that he may go up and fall at Raʹmoth-gilʹe·ad?’ And this one began to say something like this, while that one was saying something like that.32
  21. Finally a spirit33 came out and stood before Jehovah and said, ‘I myself shall fool him.’ At that Jehovah said to him, ‘By what means?’34
  22. To this he said, ‘I shall go forth, and I shall certainly become a deceptive spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’35 So he said, ‘You will fool him, and, what is more, you will come off the winner.36 Go out and do that way.’37
  23. And now here Jehovah has put a deceptive spirit into the mouth of all these prophets of yours;38 but Jehovah himself has spoken calamity concerning you.”39
  24. ¶ Zed·e·kiʹah the son of Che·naʹa·nah now approached and struck Mi·caiʹah upon the cheek40 and said: “In just which [way] did the spirit of Jehovah pass along from me to speak with you?”41
  25. At that Mi·caiʹah said: “Look! You are seeing [which way] on that day when you will enter the innermost42 chamber to hide yourself.”43
  26. Then the king of Israel said: “Take Mi·caiʹah and turn him back to Aʹmon the chief of the city and to Joʹash the king’s son.44
  27. And you must say, ‘This is what the king has said:45 “PUT this fellow in the house of detention46 and feed him with a reduced allowance of bread47 and a reduced allowance of water until I come in peace.”’”48
  28. Upon that Mi·caiʹah said: “If you return at all in peace, Jehovah has not spoken with[f] me.”49 And he added: “Hear, all YOU peoples.”50
  29. ¶ And the king of Israel and Je·hoshʹa·phat the king of Judah proceeded to go up to Raʹmoth-gilʹe·ad.51
  30. The king of Israel now said to Je·hoshʹa·phat: “There will be a disguising and entering[g] into the battle52 [for me], but you, for your part, put on your garments.”53 Accordingly, the king of Israel disguised54 himself and entered into the battle.55
  31. As for the king of Syria, he had commanded the thirty-two chiefs56 of the chariots that were his, saying: “YOU must fight, neither with the small nor the great, but with the king of Israel alone.”57
  32. And it came about that, as soon as the chiefs of the chariots saw Je·hoshʹa·phat, they, for their part, said to themselves: “Surely it is the king of Israel.”58 So they turned aside against him to fight; and Je·hoshʹa·phat began to cry for aid.59
  33. And it came about that, as soon as the chiefs of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they immediately came back from following him.60
  34. ¶ And there was a man that bent the bow in his innocence, but he got to strike the king of Israel between the appendages and the coat of mail, so that he said to his charioteer:61 “Turn your hand around, and take me out from the camp, because I have been badly wounded.”
  35. And the battle kept rising in intensity on that day, and the king himself had to be kept in a standing position in the chariot facing the Syrians, and gradually he died62 in the evening; and the blood of the wound kept pouring out upon the interior of the war chariot.63
  36. And the ringing cry[h] began to pass through the camp about the setting of the sun, saying: “Everyone to his city, and everyone to his land!”64
  37. Thus the king died. When he was brought[i] to Sa·marʹi·a, then they buried the king in Sa·marʹi·a.65
  38. And they began to wash off the war chariot by the pool of Sa·marʹi·a, and the dogs went licking up his blood66 (and the prostitutes themselves bathed there), according to Jehovah’s word that he had spoken.67
  39. ¶ As for the rest of the affairs of Aʹhab and all that he did and the house of ivory68 that he built and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book69 of the affairs of the days of the kings of Israel?
  40. Finally Aʹhab lay down with his forefathers;70 and A·ha·ziʹah[j]71 his son began to reign in place of him.
  41. ¶ As for Je·hoshʹa·phat72 the son of Aʹsa, he had become king over Judah in the fourth year of Aʹhab the king of Israel.
  42. Je·hoshʹa·phat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and for twenty-five years he reigned in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was A·zuʹbah the daughter of Shilʹhi.
  43. And he kept walking in all the way of Aʹsa his father. He did not turn aside from it, by doing what was right in the eyes of Jehovah.73 Only the high places themselves did not disappear.[k] The people were still sacrificing and making sacrificial smoke on the high places.74
  44. And Je·hoshʹa·phat kept peaceful relations with the king of Israel.75
  45. As for the rest of the affairs of Je·hoshʹa·phat and the mightiness with which he acted and how he warred, are they not written in the book76 of the affairs of the days of the kings of Judah?
  46. And the rest of the male temple prostitutes77 that had been left over in the days of Aʹsa his father he cleared out from the land.78
  47. ¶ As regards a king, there was none in Eʹdom;79 a deputy was king.80
  48. ¶ Je·hoshʹa·phat, for his part, made Tarʹshish81 ships to go to Oʹphir for gold; but they did not go, because the ships were wrecked at Eʹzi·on-geʹber.82
  49. It was then that A·ha·ziʹah the son of Aʹhab said to Je·hoshʹa·phat: “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships,” but Je·hoshʹa·phat did not consent.83
  50. ¶ Finally Je·hoshʹa·phat lay down with his forefathers84 and was buried with his forefathers in the City of David85 his forefather; and Je·hoʹram86 his son began to reign in place of him.
  51. ¶ As for A·ha·ziʹah87 the son of Aʹhab, he became king over Israel in Sa·marʹi·a in the seventeenth year of Je·hoshʹa·phat the king of Judah, and he continued to reign over Israel for two years.
  52. And he kept doing what was bad88 in Jehovah’s eyes and went walking in the way of his father89 and in the way of his mother90 and in the way of Jer·o·boʹam91 the son of Neʹbat, who had caused Israel to sin.92
  53. And he continued serving Baʹal93 and bowing down to him and kept offending94 Jehovah the God of Israel according to all that his father had done.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Meaning “Jehovah Is Judge.” Heb., Yehoh·sha·phatʹ.
  2. ^ One of 134 scribal changes from YHWH to ʼAdho·naiʹ. See App 1B.
  3. ^ Meaning “Who Is Like Jehovah?” Heb., Mi·khaiʹhu.
  4. ^ Lit., “one mouth.”
  5. ^ Or, “lord.” Heb., ʼadho·nimʹ, pl. of ʼa·dhohnʹ, to denote excellence.
  6. ^ Or, “spoken by.” Compare Nu 12:8a.
  7. ^ “There will be a disguising and entering.” In Heb. these are verbs in the infinitive absolute, indefinite as to time and impersonal. TLXXSy, “I shall completely cover myself and enter”; Vg, “Take armor and enter.”
  8. ^ Or, “And the herald,” in agreement with LXX.
  9. ^ “He was brought,” Vg; MSy, “he came”; LXX, “they came.”
  10. ^ Meaning “Jehovah Has Taken Hold.” Heb., ʼAchaz·yaʹhu.
  11. ^ “Did not disappear,” M; LXXSyVg, “he did not remove.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 1Ki 15:24; 2Ch 18:3
  2. ^ De 4:43; Jos 20:8; 1Ki 4:13
  3. ^ 2Ch 18:2
  4. ^ 2Ki 3:7; 2Ch 18:3; Pr 13:20; 2Co 6:14
  5. ^ Nu 27:21; Pr 3:6
  6. ^ 1Ki 18:19; Mt 15:14
  7. ^ 2Ch 18:5; Je 5:31; 23:30
  8. ^ 2Ki 3:11; 2Ch 18:6
  9. ^ 1Ki 18:4
  10. ^ 1Ki 21:20; 2Ch 36:16; Ps 34:21; Pr 9:8
  11. ^ 2Ch 18:7; Is 30:10; Je 38:4
  12. ^ Pr 5:12, 13; Ti 1:13
  13. ^ 1Sa 8:16; 2Ki 9:32
  14. ^ 2Ch 18:8
  15. ^ Es 6:8; Mt 11:8; Ac 12:21
  16. ^ 2Ch 18:9; Eze 13:2
  17. ^ De 18:20; Je 23:16, 17; Eze 13:6
  18. ^ 2Ch 18:10
  19. ^ 2Ch 18:11
  20. ^ 2Ch 18:12
  21. ^ De 6:13; Je 12:16
  22. ^ Nu 22:35; 2Ch 18:13; Je 1:7; 23:28; Eze 2:4; 2Pe 1:21
  23. ^ 2Ch 18:14
  24. ^ De 5:11; 2Ch 18:15
  25. ^ De 28:25
  26. ^ Pr 10:24; Zc 10:2; 13:7; Mt 9:36
  27. ^ 2Ch 18:16; Eze 33:9
  28. ^ 2Ch 18:17
  29. ^ 2Ch 18:18
  30. ^ Is 6:1; Eze 1:26; Da 7:9
  31. ^ Jb 1:6; Da 7:10; Mt 18:10; Re 5:11
  32. ^ 2Ch 18:19
  33. ^ Ps 104:4; Heb 1:7, 14
  34. ^ 2Ch 18:20
  35. ^ 1Ki 22:6
  36. ^ 2Th 2:11; 1Jo 4:1
  37. ^ 2Ch 18:21
  38. ^ Eze 14:9
  39. ^ Nu 23:19; 1Ki 20:42; 2Ch 18:22; Is 55:11
  40. ^ 1Ch 16:22; Ps 105:15
  41. ^ 2Ch 18:23
  42. ^ 1Ki 20:30
  43. ^ 2Ch 18:24
  44. ^ 2Ch 18:25
  45. ^ Ro 9:18
  46. ^ Heb 11:36
  47. ^ Ps 104:15
  48. ^ 2Ch 18:26
  49. ^ Nu 16:29
  50. ^ 2Ch 18:27
  51. ^ 2Ch 18:28
  52. ^ 1Sa 8:20
  53. ^ 1Ki 22:10
  54. ^ 2Ch 35:22; Pr 21:30
  55. ^ 2Ch 18:29
  56. ^ 1Ki 20:1
  57. ^ 2Ch 18:30
  58. ^ 2Ch 18:31
  59. ^ Ps 50:15; 91:15; 130:1
  60. ^ 2Ch 18:32
  61. ^ 2Ch 18:33
  62. ^ 1Ki 20:42; 2Ch 18:34
  63. ^ Ge 9:6
  64. ^ 1Ki 22:17
  65. ^ 1Ki 16:28
  66. ^ 1Ki 21:19
  67. ^ De 32:35; Ps 119:89; Is 14:27; 46:10; 48:3
  68. ^ 1Ki 10:22; Eze 27:15
  69. ^ 1Ki 14:19; 16:5, 27
  70. ^ 1Ki 16:28
  71. ^ 2Ki 1:2; 2Ch 20:35
  72. ^ 1Ch 3:10; 2Ch 17:1; 20:31; Mt 1:8
  73. ^ 1Ki 15:11; 2Ch 14:2, 11; 15:8; 17:3; Ec 12:13
  74. ^ De 12:14; 1Ki 14:23; 15:14; 2Ki 12:3; 14:4; 15:4; 18:22; 2Ch 20:33
  75. ^ 2Ki 8:18; 2Ch 18:1; 19:2
  76. ^ 1Ki 14:29
  77. ^ Le 20:13; Ro 1:27; 1Co 6:9; 1Ti 1:10; Jd 7
  78. ^ 1Ki 15:12
  79. ^ Ge 36:1, 9
  80. ^ 2Sa 8:14; 2Ki 8:20; Ps 108:9
  81. ^ 1Ki 10:22; 2Ch 9:21
  82. ^ 1Ki 9:26; 2Ch 20:37
  83. ^ Pr 1:10; 2Co 6:14
  84. ^ 1Ki 2:10; 2Ch 21:1
  85. ^ 1Ki 11:43; 14:31; 15:24
  86. ^ 2Ki 8:16; 2Ch 21:5
  87. ^ 2Ki 1:2
  88. ^ De 28:15
  89. ^ 1Ki 16:30; 2Ki 8:27; 2Ch 22:3
  90. ^ 1Ki 21:25
  91. ^ 1Ki 12:28; 13:33; 14:9
  92. ^ 1Ki 14:9; 2Ki 3:3
  93. ^ Jg 2:11; 1Ki 16:32; 2Ki 1:2
  94. ^ Ex 20:3; 34:14

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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