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2 Chronicles 18:12

New International Reader's Version

A messenger went to get Micaiah. He said to him, “Look. The other prophets agree. All of them are saying the king will have success. So agree with them. Say the same thing they do.”

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All the other prophets were prophesying the same thing. “Attack Ramoth Gilead,” they said. “Win the battle over it. The Lord will hand it over to you.”

But Micaiah said, “You can be sure that the Lord lives. And you can be just as sure that I can only tell the king what my God says.”

But you still say, ‘What does God know? Can he see through the darkest clouds to judge us?

Sinful people say to themselves, “God will never notice. He covers his face. He never sees us.”

They say to the seers, ‘Don’t see any more visions!’ They say to the prophets, ‘Don’t give us any more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy things we want to hear even if they aren’t true.

“Their evil conduct even makes the king glad. Their lies make the princes happy.

Don’t prophesy here at Bethel anymore. This is where the king worships. The main temple in the kingdom is located here.”

Suppose a prophet goes around telling lies. And he prophesies that you will have plenty of wine and beer. Then that kind of prophet would be just right for this nation!

“Don’t prophesy,” the people’s prophets say. “Don’t prophesy about bad things. Nothing shameful is going to happen to us.”

They brought their armies together to fight against Joshua and Israel.




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