So Ahab went to his palace resentful and angry because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had told him. He had said,“ I will not give you my fathers’ inheritance.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and didn’t eat any food.
Then Mordecai returned to the King’s Gate, but Haman, overwhelmed, hurried off for home with his head covered.Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him,“ Since Mordecai is Jewish, and you have begun to fall before him, you won’t overcome him, because your downfall is certain.”
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat,“ There is still one man who can ask Yahweh, but I hate him because he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.”“ The king shouldn’t say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.