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2 Chronicles 18:12

And the messenger who has gone to call for Micaiah has spoken to him, saying, “Behold, the words of the prophets [as] one mouth [are] good toward the king, and please let your word be like one of theirs: and you have spoken good.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good.

In Context

11With these you push Aram until you have consumed them.” And all the prophets are prophesying so, saying, “Go up [to] Ramath-Gilead and prosper, and YHWH has given [it] into the hand of the king.”

13And Micaiah says “YHWH lives, surely that which my God says, I speak it.”

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Cross References

Joshua 9:2that they gather themselves together to fight with Joshua, and with Israel—[with] one mouth.

Psalms 10:11He said in his heart, “God has forgotten, || He has hid His face, || He has never seen.”

Hosea 7:3With their wickedness they make a king glad, || And with their lies—princes.

Micah 2:6You do not prophesy—they prophesy, || They do not prophesy to these, || It does not remove shame.

1 Corinthians 2:14and the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know [them], because they are discerned spiritually;

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 18:5-28

The Prophets Are Consulted. ( b. c. 897.) 4 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the Lord to day. 5 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the king's hand. 6 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might enquire of him? 7 And the king of Israel said unto… Read the whole commentary →

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