‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of YHWH, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what YHWH says’?
For am I now seeking the favor of humans or of God? Or am I striving to please humans? For if I were still pleasing humans, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
For we are not like so many who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as those from God and before God.
Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard y’all. I will pray to YHWH y’all’s God according to your* words. Whatever YHWH answers, I will tell y’all. I will keep nothing back from y’all.”
The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says YHWH.
The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “Look, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Let your word therefore, please be like one of theirs, and speak good.”
When he came to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, should we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” He said, “Y’all should go, and y’all will succeed. They will be delivered into y’all’s hand.”