And the messenger that had gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets are good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.
Hosea 7:3 - Modern King James Version They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers 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 to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets are good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.
And the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth in Gilead to battle, or shall I hold back? And they said, Go up! For Jehovah shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
Where now are your prophets who prophesied to 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 means; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do at the end of it?
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for traveling men, that I might leave my people and go away 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 trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
Ephraim circles around Me with lying, and the house of Israel with deceit. But Judah still rules with God, and is faithful with the saints.
There is lying, and swearing, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery; and blood touches blood.
Ephraim is crushed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
In the day of our king, the rulers have sickened themselves with the heat of wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, so that I should make you a ruin and its people a hissing; therefore you shall bear the shame of My people.
Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.
who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those practicing them.
They are of the world, therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.