1 Kings 22:8

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1 Kings 22:8

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Summary

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

Yet one man

1 Kings 18:4

1 Kings 19:10

1 Kings 20:41

But i hate him

Good

Concerning me

Let not the

1 Kings 21:27

Proverbs 5:12

Micah 2:7

General references

1 Kings 12:9

John 15:18

Bible References

Yet one man

When Jezebel massacred the prophets of Jehovah, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and hid them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.

He said: I have been zealous for Jehovah, the God of hosts. The children of Israel have not kept your agreement (covenant). They have destroyed your altars. They killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I, am the only one living. Now they seek to take my life too.

He quickly took the headband from his eyes. The king of Israel saw that he was one of the prophets.

But i hate him

Tell them: 'It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.'

Then the king of Israel went back to his house, bitter and angry, he went to Samaria.

Ahab said to Elijah: Have you come face to face with me, O my enemy? Elijah said: I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

Do you think you are going to be a king and rule over us? his brothers asked. So they hated him even more because of his dreams and because of what he said about them.

They mocked God's messengers. They despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until Jehovah became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them.

Evil will kill wicked people, and those who hate righteous people will be condemned.

Correct a scoffer (mocker) (scorner) and he will hate you. Reprove a wise man and he will love you.

A scoffer hates the one who reproves him. He will not go to the wise.

Israel's Holy God and Savior says to the one who is deeply despised, hated by the nations and is the servant of rulers: Kings will see you released and will rise to show their respect. Princes will also see it and they will bow low to honor you.

Then they said: Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise man, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike him with our tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words.

For I have heard the whispering of many: Terror on every side! Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him! All my trusted friends are watching for my fall. They say: Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him and take our revenge on him.

Baruch the son of Neriah is inciting you against us to give us over into the hand of the Chaldeans. They will put us to death or exile us to Babylon.

You hate the one who reproves in the gate, and abhor him who speaks the truth (with integrity).

And I eliminated the three shepherds in one month. I was tired of them, and they also abhorred me (found me repugnant).

Men will hate you because of me. He who endures to the end will be saved.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world. People loved the darkness rather than the light for their works were evil.

The world has no reason to hate you. But it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

I gave them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

So then have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

When they finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them and conquer them, and kill them.

Good

The messenger who went to get Micaiah said to him: All the other prophets have prophesied success for the king. You had better do the same.

They say to the seers: Do not see the future. They say to those who have visions: 'Do not have visions that tell us what is right. Tell us what we want to hear. Prophesy illusions.

The officials went to the king and said: This man must be put to death. By talking like this he is making the soldiers in the city lose their courage. He is doing the same thing to everyone else left in the city. He is not trying to help the people. He only wants to hurt them.

If a man who is a constant liar tells a lie saying: 'I will prophesy to you about wine and of strong drink;' he would be the prophet of this people.

Concerning me

A man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbors by the word of Jehovah: Give me a wound. But the man would not.

When Joram saw Jehu he said: Do you come in peace, Jehu? He said in reply: What peace is possible while all the land is full of the disgusting sins of your mother Jezebel, and her secret arts of witchcraft?

How horrible it will be for the wicked! Disaster will strike them. What they have done to others will be done to them.

I create the fruit (praise) of the lips: Peace, peace to the near and the far off, says Jehovah, and I will heal him.

Let not the

Elijah finished speaking. Ahab tore his clothes and took them off. He dressed in sackcloth. He refused food (fasted) and slept in the sackcloth. He was gloomy and depressed.

You say: How I have hated instruction! My heart despised reproof.

Will it be said, O house of Jacob, 'Is the Spirit of Jehovah impatient? Are these his doings? Do my words not do good for he who walks uprightly?'

General references

What is your opinion? He asked: What answer are we to give to this people? They want me to lighten the burdens placed on them by my father.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.