14When he came to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, are we to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And he said, Go up, and it will go well for you; and they will be given up into your hands.
15And the king said to him, Have I not, again and again, put you on your oath to say nothing to me but what is true in the name of the Lord?
16Then he said, I saw all Israel wandering on the mountains like sheep without a keeper; and the Lord said, These have no master: let them go back, every man to his house in peace.
17And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say that he would not be a prophet of good to me, but of evil?
18Then he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, and all the army of heaven in their places, at his right hand and at his left.
19And the Lord said, How may Ahab, king of Israel, be tricked into going up to Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said one thing and one another.
20Then a spirit came forward and took his place before the Lord and said, I will get him to do it by a trick. And the Lord said to him, How?