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2 Chronicles 18:7

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The king of Israel answered, “There is still one man who can ask the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, but only bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah: but I hate him; for he never prophesieth good concerning me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

KJV

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 18

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

for he never prophesied good unto me

on 2 Chronicles 18:7-9

Ahab names his objection to Micaiah before the man is even sent for, I hate him, for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil, an admission Jehoshaphat rebukes on the spot, let not the king say so. The scene stages the confrontation as royal theater, two kings enthroned in their robes in a void place at the gate of Samaria while all the other prophets perform before them. The Targum's own reading of the moment, recorded by Clarke, has Jehoshaphat praying at the gate while the false prophets around him prophesy lies, a reading that sharpens the contrast the text itself already draws between one true prophet and four hundred flatterers.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Those do best for themselves that give their friends leave, and particularly their ministers, to deal plainly and faithfully with them, and take their reproofs not only patiently, but kindly. That counsel is not always best for us that is most pleasing to us.

The words behind it

33 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H44282525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל׀Israel

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • אֶֽל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • יְהוֹשָׁפָ֡טJehoshaphat

    yehoshafatH309284 times

  • ע֣וֹדstill

    odH5750490 times

  • אִישׁ־a man

    ʾish-H3761663 times

  • אֶחָ֡דone

    ʾechadH259971 times

  • לִדְרוֹשׁ֩to consult

    lidrovoshH1875164 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • יְהוָ֨הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • מֵֽאֹת֜וֹfrom <obj.> him

    meotoH85310935 times

  • וַאֲנִ֣יand I

    vaaniH589874 times

  • שְׂנֵאתִ֗יהוּI hate him

    senetihuH8130146 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H35884482 times

  • אֵ֠ינֶנּוּnot he

    ʾeinenuH369789 times

  • מִתְנַבֵּ֨א[is] prophesying

    mitnabe'H5012115 times

  • עָלַ֤יon me

    ʾalaiH59215755 times

  • לְטוֹבָה֙<to> good

    letovahH2896538 times

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH35884482 times

  • כָל־all

    khol-H36055413 times

  • יָמָ֣יוdays his

    yamavH31172304 times

  • לְרָעָ֔ה<to> evil

    leraahH7451662 times

  • ה֖וּאhe

    hu'H19311879 times

  • מִיכָ֣יְהוּ[is] Micaiah

    mikhayehuH432121 times

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H11214930 times

  • יִמְלָ֑אImlah

    yimla'H3229

  • וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙and he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • יְה֣וֹשָׁפָ֔טJehoshaphat

    yehooshafatH309284 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408724 times

  • יֹאמַ֥רhe say

    yomarH5595305 times

  • הַמֶּ֖לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH44282525 times

  • כֵּֽן׃thus

    kenH3651771 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Luke 6:22

    Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 5:10–12

      Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

    • Matthew 10:22

      You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

    • 1 Peter 4:12–16

      Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.

    • 1 Peter 3:14

      But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be shaken.”

    • 1 Thessalonians 2:14–15

      For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,

  • Through

    1 Kings 18:17

    When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, O troubler of Israel?”

    it leads to

    • Joshua 7:25

      “Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.

  • Through

    Amos 5:10

    There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 22:8

      The king of Israel answered, “There is still one man who can ask the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, but only bad. He is Micaiah son…

    • Isaiah 29:21

      those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.