Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

Then said Micaiah, - By the life of Yahweh, whatsoever my God shall say, that, must I speak.

New American Standard Bible

But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what my God says, that I will speak.”

King James Version

And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak.

Holman Bible

But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, I will say whatever my God says.”

International Standard Version

"As the LORD lives," Micaiah replied, "I'll say what my God tells me to say."

A Conservative Version

And Micaiah said, As LORD lives, what my God says, that will I speak.

American Standard Version

And Micaiah said, As Jehovah liveth, what my God saith, that will I speak.

Amplified

But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, I will [only] speak what my God says.”

Bible in Basic English

And Micaiah said, By the living Lord, whatever the Lord says to me I will say.

Darby Translation

And Micah said, As Jehovah liveth, even what my God shall say, that will I declare.

Julia Smith Translation

And Micaiah will say, Jehovah lives, for what God shall say I shall speak it.

King James 2000

And Micaiah said, As the LORD lives, even what my God says, that will I speak.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, only what my God has said, that will I speak."

Modern King James verseion

And Micaiah said, As the Lord lives, even what my God says, that I will speak.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And Micaiah said, "As truly as the LORD liveth, even what my God sayeth, that will I speak."

NET Bible

But Micaiah said, "As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what my God tells me to say!"

New Heart English Bible

Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what my God says, that will I speak."

Webster

And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak.

World English Bible

Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak."

Youngs Literal Translation

And Micaiah saith 'Jehovah liveth, surely that which my God saith, it I speak.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מכיהוּ מיכיהוּ 
Miykay@huw 
Usage: 20

As the Lord

Usage: 0

חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

Verse Info

Context Readings

Jehoshaphat's Alliance With Ahab

12 And, the messenger who went to call Micaiah, spake unto him, saying, Lo! the words of the prophets, with one mouth, are good for the king, - be thy word then, I pray thee, like one of theirs, so wilt thou speak good. 13 Then said Micaiah, - By the life of Yahweh, whatsoever my God shall say, that, must I speak. 14 Now, when he came unto the king, the king said unto him, Micah, shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up and prosper, and may they be delivered into your hand.

Cross References

Numbers 22:35

And the messenger of Yahweh said unto Balaam - Go with the men: Only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that, shalt thou speak. So Balaam went his way with the princes of Balak.

Numbers 22:18-20

And Balaam responded and said unto the servants of Balak, Though Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the bidding of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

Numbers 24:13

Though Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, yet could I not go beyond the bidding of Yahweh, to, do good or ill, out of my own heart, - what Yahweh shall speak, that, must I speak?

Numbers 23:12

And he answered and said, - Was it not to be so that whatsoever Yahweh should put into my mouth, the same, should I take heed to speak?

Numbers 23:26

And Balaam responded, and said unto Balak, - Spake I not unto thee, saying, All that Yahweh shall speak, that, must I do?

1 Kings 22:14

And Micaiah said, - By the life of Yahweh, what Yahweh saith unto me, that, will I, speak.

Jeremiah 23:28

The prophet with whom is a dream, Let him relate it as a dream, And he with whom is my word, Let him speak my word as truth, - What is the chaff to the wheat? Demandeth Yahweh:

Jeremiah 42:4

And Jeremiah the prophet, said unto them, I have heard; behold me! praying unto Yahweh your God according to your words, - and it shall come to pass that the whole thing that Yahweh shall answer you, I will tell you, I will keep back from you, nothing.

Ezekiel 2:7

Thou shalt therefore speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear For perverse, they are!

Micah 2:6-7

Do not sputter - So they sputter! They must not sputter as to these things, Must he not put away reproaches?

Acts 20:27

for I have not shrunk from announcing all the counsel of God unto you.

1 Corinthians 11:23

For, I myself, received from the Lord - that which I also delivered unto you, - how that, the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was being delivered up, took a loaf,

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not, as the many, driving a petty trade with the word of God; but, as of sincerity, but, as of God, before God, in Christ, we speak.

Galatians 1:10

For am I, even now, persuading, men, or God? Or am I seeking to please, men? If I had been still pleasing, men, Christ's servant, had I not been!

1 Thessalonians 2:4

But, even as we have been approved by God, to be entrusted with the glad-message, so, we speak, - not as, unto men, giving pleasure, but unto God - who proveth our hearts.

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