1 Kings 22:18
Hebrew Text— 1 Kings 22:18The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
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If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.”
For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen; but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,
I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.
The watchman said, “I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” The king said, “He is a good man, and comes with good news.”
He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”
O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn’t listen.” ’ ”
You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;” he would be the prophet of this people.
Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.
Jesus therefore answered, “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,
They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.
The king said also to Zadok the priest, “Aren’t you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’ ”
Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”
Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen.
He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.
You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips.
I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,
Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.
Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”
In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”
While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”
and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”
His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”
It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said, “Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news.”
He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.”
Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.
One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”
For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”
So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,
Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.