When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?”
Amos 5:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They hate the one who reproves in the gate, and they abhor the one who speaks the truth. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They hate him who reproves in the [city] gate [holding him as an abomination and rejecting his rebuke], and they abhor him who speaks uprightly. American Standard Version (1901) They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. Common English Bible They hate the one who judges at the city gate, and they reject the one who speaks the truth. Catholic Public Domain Version They held hatred for the one who corrects at the gate, and they have abhorred the one who speaks perfectly. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly. |
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?”
Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you. Because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord,
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one other by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies anything favorable about me but only disaster.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let the king not say such a thing.”
But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be put to death?” So the prophet stopped but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you because you have done this and have not listened to my advice.”
but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord against his people became so great that there was no remedy.
those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit, who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate and undermine justice for the one in the right.
Truth is lacking, and whoever turns from evil is despoiled. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Ebed-melech the Cushite, a eunuch in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. The king happened to be sitting at the Benjamin Gate,
Yet let no one contend, and let none accuse, for with you is my contention, O priest.
The priest shall make an examination, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling,
Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.
and the inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and exchange presents, because these two prophets tormented the inhabitants of the earth.