King Jehoshaphat and King Ahab
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle. Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel. And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.-2 Chronicles 18:28-31***King Jehoshaphat was the 4th king to rule Judah, the southern nation in the Promised Land. King Ahab was the 7th king to rule over all of the Israelites in the northern nation of Israel in the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and to their descendants. Jehoshaphat only worshiped the Lord God. Ahab worshiped idols. Jehoshaphat's son Jehoram (Joram) was married to Ahab's daughter Athaliah. When Jehoshaphat went to the northern nation of Israel, Ahab asked Jehoshaphat if Jehoshaphat would fight alongside him in a war against the Syrians (Arameans). Jehoshaphat agreed, although Jehoshaphat wanted to know the will of the Lord God. Ahab brought in approximately 400 persuadable prophets. According to the will of the Lord God, the prophets proclaimed that Ahab would be victorious. Jehoshaphat wanted to hear from a faithful prophet of the Lord God. Thus, Ahab sent for Micaiah, a prophet who faithfully spoke the words of the Lord God. Ahab told Jehoshaphat that he hated Micaiah; Ahab said Micaiah only prophesied bad things about him. Initially, Micaiah appeared to mimic the proclamations of victory spoken by the other prophets. Immediately thereafter, Ahab told Micaiah to speak the truth. Micaiah's divine prediction of Ahab's death prompted Ahab to prepare a plan of disguise. In the midst of the battle, the Syrians thought that regally dressed Jehoshaphat was actually Ahab, until Jehoshaphat cried aloud. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that the Lord God kept Jehoshaphat from being harmed. Over 800 years after Joram and Athaliah's son Ahaziah became the 6th king to rule Judah, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob's 4th born son Judah, the tribe of Judah's kings, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
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