2 Chronicles 18:7 Cross References - ISV

⁷ “There is still one man left by whom we could ask the LORD what to do,” the king of Israel replied to Jehoshaphat, “but I hate him because he won’t prophesy anything good about me. Instead, he always prophesies evil. He is Imla’s son Micaiah.”
But Jehoshaphat rebuked Ahab, “Kings should never talk like that.”

⁴ had taken 100 prophets and had hidden them by fifties in a cave, providing them with food and water when Jezebel was trying to destroy the LORD’s prophets.

¹⁷ When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab asked him, “Is it really you, you destroyer of Israel?”

¹⁰ “I’ve been very zealous for the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies,” he replied. “The Israelis have abandoned your covenant, demolished your altars, executed your prophets with swords, and I—that’s right, just me!—am the only one left. Now they’re seeking my life, to get rid of me!”

⁴² He told the king, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you let the man whom I had dedicated to destruction go free, therefore your life is to be forfeited for his life, and your people for his people.’”
⁴³ After hearing this, the king of Israel rode back to his palace in Samaria, frustrated and in a foul mood.

²⁰ Later on, Ahab asked Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?”
But Elijah answered, “I’ve found you because you sold yourself to do what the LORD considers to be evil!

²² As soon as Joram noticed Jehu, he cried out, “Peace, Jehu?”
Jehu replied, “What peace, given your mother Jezebel’s prostitution and all of her witchcraft?”

¹³ “As the LORD lives,” Micaiah replied, “I’ll say what my God tells me to say.”

²¹ Evil will kill the wicked; those who hate the righteous will be held guilty.

³ because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the wicked. They bring down evil upon me, and in anger they hate me.

¹⁴ Rescue me from the mud and do not let me sink. Rescue me from those who hate me, and from the deep waters.

⁸ Don’t rebuke a mocker or he will hate you. Rebuke a wise person, and he will love you.

¹² Like a gold earring and a necklace of pure gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.

¹⁰ Bloodthirsty men hate the innocent person, but the upright show concern for his life.

¹⁰ They say to the seers, ‘Don’t see visions,’ and to the prophets, ‘Don’t give us visions of what is right! Instead, tell us welcome things, prophesy illusions,

¹⁸ Jeremiah Reacts to the Plot against HimThen they said, “Come, let’s make up a plot against Jeremiah. After all, the priest’s instruction, the wise man’s counsel, and the prophet’s message won’t be destroyed. So let’s verbally attack him. Pay no attention to anything he says!”

⁴ Then the officials told the king, “Let this man be put to death because he’s undermining the efforts of the soldiers who remain in this city and that of all the people by speaking words like these to them. Indeed, this man is not seeking the well-being of this people, but rather their harm.”

¹⁷ “Son of Man,” he said, “I’ve appointed you to be a watchman over the house of Israel. Therefore when you hear a message that comes from me, you are to warn them for me.
¹⁸ “So when I say to a wicked person, ‘You’re about to die,’ if you don’t warn or instruct that wicked person that his behavior is wicked so he can live, that wicked person will die in his sin, but I’ll hold you responsible for his death. ¹⁹ If you warn the wicked person, and he doesn’t repent of his wickedness or of his wicked behavior, he’ll die in his sin, but you will have saved your own life.

¹⁰ They have hated those who are presenting their cases in court, detesting the one who speaks truthfully.

⁷ “It is said, house of Jacob, ‘The Spirit of the LORD is limited, if he acts this way, is he not?’ “But my words benefit those who live righteously, do they not?

¹⁸ John had been telling Herod, “It’s not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” ¹⁹ So Herodias bore a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she couldn’t do it

²⁷ So without delay the king sent a soldier and ordered him to bring John’s head. The soldier went and beheaded him in prison.

²² “How blessed are you whenever people hate you, avoid you, insult you, and slander you because of the Son of Man!

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

¹⁸ The World’s Hatred“If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

²⁴ If I hadn’t done among them the actions that no one else did, they wouldn’t have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

²⁶ I therefore declare to you today that I’m not responsible for the blood of any of you, ²⁷ because I never shrank from telling you the whole plan of God.

¹⁶ So have I now become your enemy for telling you the truth?