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And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: but I hatev him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

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Psa. 34:21• ²¹Evil shall destroy the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall bear their guilt. (Psa. 34:21)

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yet one man.

1 Kings 18:4• ⁴and it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water); (1 Kings 18:4)

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1 Kings 19:10,14• ¹⁰And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it away.
¹⁴And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it away. (1 Kings 19:10,14)

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1 Kings 20:41‑42• ⁴¹Then he hastily took the sash away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him, that he was of the prophets.
⁴²And he said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man that I had devoted to destruction, thy life shall be for his life, and thy people for his people. (1 Kings 20:41‑42)

but I hate him.

1 Kings 22:27• ²⁷and thou shalt say, Thus says the king: Put this man in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace. (1 Kings 22:27)

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1 Kings 20:43• ⁴³And the king of Israel went to his house sullen and vexed, and came to Samaria. (1 Kings 20:43)

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1 Kings 21:20• ²⁰And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, mine enemy? And he said, I have found thee; because thou hast sold thyself to do evil in the sight of Jehovah. (1 Kings 21:20)

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Gen. 37:8• ⁸And his brethren said to him, Wilt thou indeed be a king over us? wilt thou indeed rule over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words. (Gen. 37:8)

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2 Chron. 36:16• ¹⁶But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy. (2 Chron. 36:16)

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Psa. 34:21• ²¹Evil shall destroy the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall bear their guilt. (Psa. 34:21)

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Prov. 9:8• ⁸Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; reprove a wise man, and he will love thee. (Prov. 9:8)

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Prov. 15:12• ¹²A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him; he will not go unto the wise. (Prov. 15:12)

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Isa. 49:7• ⁷Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, princes, and they shall worship, because of Jehovah who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee. (Isa. 49:7)

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Jer. 18:18• ¹⁸And they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. (Jer. 18:18)

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Jer. 20:10• ¹⁰For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side: Report, and we will report it. All my familiars are watching for my stumbling: Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him; and we shall take our revenge on him. (Jer. 20:10)

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Jer. 43:3‑4• ³but Baruch the son of Nerijah is setting thee on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.
⁴So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah to abide in the land of Judah; (Jer. 43:3‑4)

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Amos 5:10• ¹⁰They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. (Amos 5:10)

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Zech. 11:8• ⁸And I destroyed three shepherds in one month; and my soul was vexed with them, and their soul also loathed me. (Zech. 11:8)

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Matt. 10:22• ²²and ye shall be hated of all on account of my name. But he that has endured to the end, *he* shall be saved. (Matt. 10:22)

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John 3:19‑21• ¹⁹And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil.
²⁰For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;
²¹but he that practises the truth comes to the light, that his works may be manifested that they have been wrought in God. (John 3:19‑21)

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John 7:7• ⁷The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil. (John 7:7)

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John 15:18‑19• ¹⁸If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.
¹⁹If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you. (John 15:18‑19)

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John 17:14• ¹⁴I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world. (John 17:14)

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Gal. 4:16• ¹⁶So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you? (Gal. 4:16)

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Rev. 11:7‑10• ⁷And when they shall have completed their testimony, the beast who comes up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and shall conquer them, and shall kill them:
⁸and their body shall be on the street of the great city, which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
⁹And men of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations see their body three days and a half, and they do not suffer their bodies to be put into a sepulchre.
¹⁰And they that dwell upon the earth rejoice over them, and are full of delight, and shall send gifts one to another, because these, the two prophets, tormented them that dwell upon the earth. (Rev. 11:7‑10)

good.

1 Kings 22:13• ¹³And the messenger that went to call Micah spoke to him saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak good. (1 Kings 22:13)

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Isa. 30:10• ¹⁰who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits; (Isa. 30:10)

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Jer. 38:4• ⁴And the princes said unto the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; for why should he weaken the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking to them according to these words? for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. (Jer. 38:4)

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Mic. 2:11• ¹¹If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink, he shall be the prophet of this people. (Mic. 2:11)

concerning me.

1 Kings 20:35‑42• ³⁵And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to another by the word of Jehovah, Smite me, I pray thee. But the man refused to smite him.
³⁶Then said he to him, Because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah, behold, when thou departest from me, the lion will slay thee. And when he had departed from him, the lion found him and slew him.
³⁷Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him violently, and wounded him.
³⁸And the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with a sash over his eyes.
³⁹And as the king passed by, he cried to the king and said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me and said, Keep this man; if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
⁴⁰And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said to him, So is thy judgment: thyself hast decided it.
⁴¹Then he hastily took the sash away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him, that he was of the prophets.
⁴²And he said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man that I had devoted to destruction, thy life shall be for his life, and thy people for his people. (1 Kings 20:35‑42)

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2 Kings 9:22• ²²And it came to pass when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he said, What peace, so long as the fornications of thy mother Jezebel and her sorceries are so many? (2 Kings 9:22)

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Isa. 3:11• ¹¹Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him. (Isa. 3:11)

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Isa. 57:19‑21• ¹⁹I create the fruit of the lips: peace, peace to him that is afar off, and to him that is nigh, saith Jehovah; and I will heal him.
²⁰But the wicked are like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, and whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
²¹There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. (Isa. 57:19‑21)

Let not the.

1 Kings 21:27‑29• ²⁷And it came to pass when Ahab heard these words, that he rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
²⁸And the word of Jehovah came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
²⁹Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. (1 Kings 21:27‑29)

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Prov. 5:12‑14• ¹²and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
¹³and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;
¹⁴I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. (Prov. 5:12‑14)

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Mic. 2:7• ⁷O thou that art named the house of Jacob, Is Jehovah impatient? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? (Mic. 2:7)

• He hated him, and he likewise hated all those who pronounced the Lord’s judgment upon him. He wanted the prophet to “prophesy good concerning him.” Such will ever be the character of the religious world. (“Ahab and Jehoshaphat: 1 Kings 22” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah; but I hate him, for he prophesies no good concerning me, but evil: it is Micahb the son of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

JND Translation Notes

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See Judg. 17.4.