And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he said, I have found [you]; because you have wickedly sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger;

And the king of Israel gathered all the prophets together, about four hundred men. And the king said to them, Shall I go up to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I refrain? And they said, Go up, for the Lord will surely give [it] into the hands of the king.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is one man here [for us] to inquire of the Lord by; but I hate him, for he does not speak good of me, but only evil; Micaiah son of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat king of Judah said, Let not the king say such things!

They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.

For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside [the judgment of] the poor in the gates.

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord God Almighty shall be with you, as you have said,

But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We will not have this man to reign over us.'

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

"If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

He who hates Me hates My Father also.

If I had not done the works among them which no one else has done, they would have no sin; but now they have both seen and they have hated both Me and My Father.

"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers,

[Let] love [be] without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, not loving what is good,

And Jehu the prophet, the son of Hanani went out to meet him, and said to him, King Jehoshaphat, do you help a sinner, or act friendly towards one hated of the Lord? Therefore has wrath come upon you from the Lord.

In his sight an evil worker is set at nought, but he honors them that fear the Lord. He swears to his neighbor, and disappoints [him] not.

Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate You? And [have I not] wasted away because of Your enemies?

I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted as my enemies.

so they that forsake the law praise ungodliness; but they that love the law fortify themselves with a wall.

Then they all cried out again, saying, "Not this [Man], but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a bandit.

who, having known the righteous judgment of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve of those who practice them.

Will none of the workers of iniquity know, who devour My people as they would eat bread? They have not called upon God. There were they greatly afraid, where there was no fear;

Why do you wrong My people, and shame the face of the poor?

Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain.

Behold, you feed on the milk, and clothe yourselves with the wool, and slay the fat, but you feed not My sheep.

Hear now this, you that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.

Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morning.

Thus says the Lord Almighty, Feed the sheep of the slaughter;

which their possessors have slain, and have not repented: and they that sold them said, Blessed be the Lord; for we have become rich: and their shepherds have suffered no sorrow for them.