1 Kings22:15

Translation

And he came to the king. Then the king said to MICAIAH, “Shall we go to war against RAMOTH GILEAD,

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or shall we refrain?” Then he answered him, “Go and succeed, for YHVH will deliver it (the city) in the hand of the king.”

Paraphrase

Micaiah came before King Ahab. Then King Ahab asked WHO IS LIKE YH, “Should we go to war against THE HIGH PLACE OF THE MEMORIAL MOUND, or should we refrain?” He answered King Ahab by saying, “Oh, absolutely. Go for it! Success is the only possible outcome because THE ETERNAL AND PERSONAL GOD will certainly give the victory to someone like you, in fact you have caused him to feel obligated to give you victory over your enemy.”

Footnotes

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Ramoth means “the heights, or the high places,” and Gilead seems to mean “a mound that is a memorial to someone or a heap of stones that testifies to some big event”. There is a good chance that the person or event being memorialized had religious significance because many of the important things in those cultures were religious in nature.