He also followed their advice and went with Joram son of Israel’s King Ahab to fight against King Hazael of Aram, in Ramoth-gilead. The Arameans wounded Joram,
Then Jehu son of the seer Hanani went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, ‘Do you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, the Lord’s wrath is on you.
When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they shouted, ‘He must be the king of Israel! ’ So they turned to attack him, but Jehoshaphat cried out and the Lord helped him. God drew them away from him.
But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought against Aram’s King Hazael. Jehu said, ‘If you commanders wish to make me king, then don’t let anyone escape from the city to report it in Jezreel.’
Then he sent a message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: ‘The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to fight against Moab? ’ Jehoshaphat said, ‘I will go. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.’
Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the villages of Jair son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
From the tribe of Gad they gave: Ramoth in Gilead, the city of refuge for the one who commits manslaughter, with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,
So King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him in Ramoth-gilead when he fought against Aram’s King Hazael. Then Judah’s King Ahaziah son of Jehoram went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab since Joram was ill.
The prophet Elisha called one of the sons of the prophets and said, ‘Tuck your mantle under your belt, take this flask of oil with you, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
Then Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. Joram and all Israel had been at Ramoth-gilead on guard against King Hazael of Aram.
Across the Jordan east of Jericho, they selected Bezer on the wilderness plateau from Reuben’s tribe, Ramoth in Gilead from Gad’s tribe, and Golan in Bashan from Manasseh’s tribe.