And the messenger that had gone to call Micaiah spoke unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let your word, I pray you, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.
Hosea 7:3 - King James 2000 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. American Standard Version (1901) They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Common English Bible By their wickedness they make the king glad, and give joy to the officials with their lies. Catholic Public Domain Version The king has rejoiced at their wickedness, and the leaders have rejoiced in their lies. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies. |
And the messenger that had gone to call Micaiah spoke unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let your word, I pray you, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
Where are now your prophets who prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their own power; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men; that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
Ephraim surrounds me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet walks with God, and is faithful with the saints.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break all restraint, and bloodshed touches bloodshed.
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after a human commandment.
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing: therefore you shall bear the reproach of my people.
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a bribe; and the great man, he utters his evil desire: so they weave it together.
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
They are of the world: therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.