[22:29] Then King Ahab of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah went to attack the city of Ramoth in Gilead.
[22:30] Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “As we go into battle, I will disguise myself, but you wear your royal garments.” So the king of Israel went into battle in disguise.
[22:31] The king of Syria had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders to attack no one else except the king of Israel.
[22:32] So when they saw King Jehoshaphat, they all thought that he was the king of Israel, and they turned to attack him. But when he cried out,
[22:33] they realized that he was not the king of Israel, and they stopped their attack.
[22:34] By chance, however, a Syrian soldier shot an arrow which struck King Ahab between the joints of his armor. “I'm wounded!” he cried out to his chariot driver. “Turn around and pull out of the battle!”
[22:35] While the battle raged on, King Ahab remained propped up in his chariot, facing the Syrians. The blood from his wound ran down and covered the bottom of the chariot, and at evening he died.
[22:36] Near sunset the order went out through the Israelite ranks: “Each of you go back to your own country and city!”
[22:37] So died King Ahab. His body was taken to Samaria and buried.
[22:38] His chariot was cleaned up at the pool of Samaria, where dogs licked up his blood and prostitutes washed themselves, as the Lord had said would happen.
[22:39] Everything else that King Ahab did, including an account of his palace decorated with ivory and of all the cities he built, is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.
[22:40] At his death his son Ahaziah succeeded him as king.