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2 Chronicles 18:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So the king of Israel gathered the prophets, four hundred men, and asked them, ‘Should we go to Ramoth-gilead for war or should I refrain? ’ They replied, ‘March up, and God will hand it over to the king.’

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But the beast was taken prisoner, and along with it the false prophet, who had performed the signs in its presence. He deceived those who accepted the mark of the beast and those who worshipped its image with these signs.  Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.


For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine,  but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear.


Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practise divination for silver. Yet they lean on the  Lord, saying, ‘Isn’t the Lord   among us? No disaster will overtake us.’


If a man comes and utters empty lies    – ‘I will preach to you about wine and beer’   – he would be just the preacher for this people!


Because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (when I intended no distress),  and because you have supported  the wicked  person so that he does not turn from his evil way to save his life,


You have gone astray at the cost of your lives  because you are the ones who sent me to the Lord your God, saying, “Pray to the Lord our God on our behalf, and as for all that the Lord our God says, tell it to us, and we’ll act accordingly.”


They keep on saying to those who despise me,  “The Lord has spoken: You will have peace.”  They have said to everyone who follows the stubbornness of his heart, “No harm will come to you.” ’


Among the prophets of Jerusalem also I saw a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, and none turns his back on evil. They are all like Sodom  to me; Jerusalem’s residents are like Gomorrah.


So he went to the king, and the king asked him, ‘Micaiah, should we go to Ramoth-gilead for war, or should I  refrain? ’ Micaiah said, ‘March up and succeed, for they will be handed over to you.’


However, Elisha said to King Joram of Israel, ‘What do we have in common? Go to the prophets of your father and your mother! ’ But the king of Israel replied, ‘No, because it is the Lord who has summoned these three kings to hand them over to Moab.’


Now summon all Israel to meet me at Mount Carmel,  along with the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah  who eat at Jezebel’s table.’


Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the villages of Jair son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);


But Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, ‘First, please ask what the Lord’s will is.’


But Jehoshaphat asked, ‘Isn’t there a prophet of the Lord here any more? Let’s ask him.’


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


This is what the Lord of Armies says: ‘Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are deluding you. They speak visions from their own minds,  not from the Lord’s mouth.





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