2 Chronicles 18:12

World English Bible (2000)

The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth. Let your word therefore, please be like one of theirs, and speak good."

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  • Josh 9:2 : 2 that they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
  • Job 22:13 : 13 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
  • Ps 10:11 : 11 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."
  • Isa 30:10 : 10 who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
  • Hos 7:3 : 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
  • Amos 7:13 : 13 but don't prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house!"
  • Mic 2:6 : 6 "Don't prophesy!" They prophesy. "Don't prophesy about these things. Disgrace won't overtake us."
  • Mic 2:11 : 11 If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: "I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;" he would be the prophet of this people.
  • 1 Cor 2:14-16 : 14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one. 16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have Christ's mind.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:12-20
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    12All the prophets prophesied so, saying, "Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king."

    13The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good."

    14Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak."

    15When he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?" He answered him, "Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king."

    16The king said to him, "How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?"

    17He said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, 'These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.'"

    18The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Didn't I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?"

    19Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

    20Yahweh said, 'Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One said one thing; and another said another.

  • 2 Chr 18:11
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    11All the prophets prophesied so, saying, "Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king."

  • 2 Chr 18:13-15
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    13Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak."

    14When he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" He said, "Go up, and prosper. They shall be delivered into your hand."

    15The king said to him, "How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?"

  • 1 Kgs 22:28
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    28Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me." He said, "Listen, all you people!"

  • 2 Chr 18:21-27
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    21"He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' "He said, 'You will entice him, and will prevail also. Go forth, and do so.'

    22"Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you."

    23Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Spirit of Yahweh go from me to speak to you?"

    24Micaiah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an inner room to hide yourself."

    25The king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

    26and say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace."'"

    27Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me." He said, "Listen, you peoples, all of you!"

  • 2 Chr 18:3-9
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    3Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "Will you go with me to Ramoth Gilead?" He answered him, "I am as you are, and my people as your people. We will be with you in the war."

    4Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please inquire first for the word of Yahweh."

    5Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" They said, "Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king."

    6But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him?"

    7The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil. He is Micaiah the son of Imla." Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."

    8Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, "Get Micaiah the son of Imla quickly."

    9Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

  • 1 Kgs 22:6-10
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    6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" They said, "Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king."

    7But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?"

    8The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil." Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."

    9Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, "Quickly get Micaiah the son of Imlah."

    10Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

  • 1 Kgs 22:22-26
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    22Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.'

    23Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you."

    24Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Spirit of Yahweh go from me to speak to you?"

    25Micaiah said, "Behold, you will see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself."

    26The king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son.

  • 2 Chr 18:17-19
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    17The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Didn't I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?"

    18[Micaiah] said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.

    19Yahweh said, 'Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One spoke saying in this way, and another saying in that way.

  • Deut 18:17
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    17Yahweh said to me, "They have well said that which they have spoken.

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    12Jehoshaphat said, "The word of Yahweh is with him." So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
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    18But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall tell him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'Concerning the words which you have heard,

  • Judg 18:5
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    5They said to him, "Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous."

  • Neh 6:7
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    7You have also appointed prophets to preach of you at Jerusalem, saying, 'There is a king in Judah!' Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together."

  • Jer 22:1
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    1Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

  • Jer 36:13
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    13Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

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  • Jer 23:16
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    16Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.