Then the king said to him, "How many times must I adjure you to speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?"If I'm reading context here correctly, the king is Ahab, not Jehoshaphat. This makes it interesting to me that Ahab, first, knows that the prophet is lying/mocking with his previous good report. He's complaining that the man never brings good news to him, but always bad. So here he gets good news, but knows it's not true. Did the prophet deliver it in a condescending voice or something? Or was that just Ahab's fatalism showing through?
Also, it's interesting that he commands the prophet to always speak the truth. He never hears what he wants to, but he knows the man still speaks the truth. So when the prophet speaks, he wants to hear the truth, even if it's bad. Better to know the bad news and it be true, than the good news and it's a lie.
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