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

and took 100 prophets and hid them, 50 men to a cave, and provided them with food and water when Jezebel slaughtered the Lord’s prophets.

He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts, but the Israelites have abandoned Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are looking for me to take my life.”

He quickly removed the bandage from his eyes. The king of Israel recognized that he was one of the prophets.

But i hate him

and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this guy in prison and feed him only bread and water until I come back safely.’”

The king of Israel left for home resentful and angry, and he entered Samaria.

Ahab said to Elijah, “So, you have caught me, my enemy.”

He replied, “I have caught you because you devoted yourself to do what is evil in the Lord’s sight.

“Are you really going to reign over us?” his brothers asked him. “Are you really going to rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.

But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising His words, and scoffing at His prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against His people that there was no remedy.

Evil brings death to the wicked,
and those who hate the righteous will be punished.

Don’t rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you;
rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

A mocker doesn’t love one who corrects him;
he will not consult the wise.

This is what the Lord,
the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, says
to one who is despised,
to one abhorred by people,

to a servant of rulers:
“Kings will see and stand up,
and princes will bow down,
because of the Lord, who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel—and He has chosen you.”

Then certain ones said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will never be lost from the priest, or counsel from the wise, or an oracle from the prophet. Come, let’s denounce him and pay no attention to all his words.”

For I have heard the gossip of many people,
“Terror is on every side!

Report him; let’s report him!”
Everyone I trusted watches for my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived
so that we might prevail against him
and take our vengeance on him.”

Rather, Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Chaldeans to put us to death or to deport us to Babylon!”

They hate the one who convicts the guilty
at the city gate
and despise the one who speaks with integrity.

In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

You will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.

“This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.

I have given them Your word.
The world hated them
because they are not of the world,

as I am not of the world.

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

When they finish their testimony, the beast

that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, conquer them, and kill them.

Good

The messenger who went to call Micaiah instructed him, “Look, the words of the prophets are unanimously favorable for the king. So let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”

They say to the seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets,
“Do not prophesy the truth to us.
Tell us flattering things.
Prophesy illusions.

The officials then said to the king, “This man ought to die, because he is weakening the morale of the warriors who remain in this city and of all the people by speaking to them in this way. This man is not seeking the well-being of this people, but disaster.”

If a man of wind comes
and invents lies:
“I will preach to you about wine and beer,”
he would be just the preacher for this people!

Concerning me

One of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow prophet by the word of the Lord, “Strike me!” But the man refused to strike him.

When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?”

He answered, “What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and witchcraft from your mother Jezebel?”

Woe to the wicked—it will go badly for them,
for what they have done will be done to them.

creating words of praise.”

The Lord says,
“Peace, peace to the one who is far or near,
and I will heal him.

Let not the

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth over his body, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around subdued.

and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
and how my heart despised correction.

House of Jacob, should it be asked,
“Is the Spirit of the Lord impatient?
Are these the things He does?”
Don’t My words bring good
to the one who walks uprightly?

General references

He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.