1 Kings 22:35
And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot. And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
The verse describes the battle at Ramoth-gilead against the Syrians, which Ahab and Jehoshaphat entered together. As the battle increased that day Ahab was wounded by an arrow, yet he was stayed up and kept propped in his chariot against the Syrians through the fighting until evening, when he died. The blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot as the fighting intensified around him.
He had gone into that battle after refusing Micaiah's warning that his battle plan was not favored by heaven. Ahab refused because he was determined on his own course, and Jehoshaphat joined in the refusal because he would not withdraw after rashly promising to be with Ahab in the war. Accepting the message could have saved Ahab's life, but his refusal ended in his death.
His death fulfilled Micaiah's word that Israel would be scattered as sheep without a shepherd and that each man would return to his house in peace. That word was then obeyed in the scattering of Israel's armies and in the proclamation at sunset for every man to go to his city and to his country. His death also fulfilled the judgment pronounced against him by Elijah, coming less than three years after it was pronounced, even though after he humbled himself the threatened disaster had been deferred from his own days.
His fearful end is a terrible evidence of how God regards those who set aside the binding claims of His law. It was witnessed and known by his son Ahaziah amid the wondrous works given to apostate Israel, and it should have humbled Ahaziah's heart before the Lord. But he treated these awful realities as idle tales and followed after Baal to his most daring act of impiety.