For three years there was no war between Aram and Israel. But in the third year Jehoshaphat king of Judah went down to see the king of Israel. The king of Israel had said to his officials, "Don't you know that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us and yet we are doing nothing to retake it from the king of Aram?"So he asked Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to fight against Ramoth Gilead?"Jehoshaphat replied...  Read More

Ahab said to Elijah, "So you have found me, my enemy!""I have found you," . . .  because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD. He says, 'I am going to bring disaster on you. I will wipe out your descendants and cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel -- slave or free. I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat . . . because you have aroused my anger and have...  Read More

Some time later there was an incident involving the vineyard belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. The vineyard was in Jezreel, close to the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria.Ahab said to Naboth. "Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange, I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth."But Naboth repl...  Read More

Wearing sackcloth around their waists and ropes around their heads, they went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad says, 'Please let me live.' ". . . "Go and get him," the king said. When Ben-Hadad came out, Ahab had him come out up into his chariot."I will return the cities my father took from your father," Ben Hadad offered.. . . Ahab said, "On the basis of a treaty I will set...  Read More

So it was, in the spring of that year, that Ben-Hadad mustered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.. . . Now the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, while the Syrians filled the countryside.  . . . And they encamped opposite each other for seven days. So it was that on the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed...  Read More

And the prophet came to the King of Israel and said to him, "Go, strengthen yourself; take note, and see what you should do, for in the spring of the year the King of Syria will come up against you."Then the servants of the king of Syria said to him, "Their gods are gods of the hills. Therefore they were stronger than we; but if we fight against them in the plain, surely we will be stronger than t...  Read More