But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for the word of the LORD.”

Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the Ephraimites.

Amaziah asked the man of God, “What should I do about the hundred talents I have given to the army of Israel?” And the man of God replied, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.”

Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’

Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:

But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?

Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him.