For so it was, while Jezebel massacred the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah had taken one hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty to a cave, and had fed them with bread and water.)

So he said, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life."

And he said, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life."

And he hastened to take the bandage away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.

Then he said to him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Because you have let slip out of [your] hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.' "

"and say, 'Thus says the king: "Put this [fellow] in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction, until I come in peace." ' "

So the king of Israel went to his house sullen and displeased, and came to Samaria.

So Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" And he answered, "I have found [you,] because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD:

And his brothers said to him, "Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till [there was] no remedy.

Evil shall slay the wicked, And those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you; Rebuke a wise [man,] and he will love you.

A scoffer does not love one who corrects him, Nor will he go to the wise.

Thus says the LORD, The Redeemer of Israel, their Holy One, To Him whom man despises, To Him whom the nation abhors, To the Servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise, Princes also shall worship, Because of the LORD who is faithful, The Holy One of Israel; And He has chosen You."

Then they said, "Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words."

For I heard many mocking: "Fear on every side!" "Report," [they say,] "and we will report it!" All my acquaintances watched for my stumbling, [saying,] "Perhaps he can be induced; Then we will prevail against him, And we will take our revenge on him."

"But Baruch the son of Neriah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death or carry us away captive to Babylon."

So Johanan the son of Kareah, all the captains of the forces, and all the people would not obey the voice of the LORD, to remain in the land of Judah.

They hate the one who rebukes in the gate, And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly.

I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

"And you will be hated by all for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

"And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

"But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."

"The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of 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, therefore the world hates you.

"I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them.

Then [those] from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves.

Then the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "Now listen, the words of the prophets with one accord encourage the king. Please, let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak encouragement."

Who say to the seers, "Do not see," And to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.

Therefore the princes said to the king, "Please, let this man be put to death, for thus he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man does not seek the welfare of this people, but their harm."

If a man should walk in a false spirit And speak a lie, [saying,] 'I will prophesy to you of wine and drink,' Even he would be the prattler of this people.

Now a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbor by the word of the LORD, "Strike me, please." And the man refused to strike him.

And he found another man, and said, "Strike me, please." So the man struck him, inflicting a wound.

Now as the king passed by, he cried out to the king and said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and there, a man came over and brought a man to me, and said, 'Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.'

And he hastened to take the bandage away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.

Now it happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, "[Is it] peace, Jehu?" So he answered, "What peace, as long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft [are so] many?"

Woe to the wicked! [It shall be] ill [with him,] For the reward of his hands shall be given him.

"I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to [him who is] far off and to [him who is] near," Says the LORD, "And I will heal him."

"[There is] no peace," Says my God, "for the wicked."

So it was, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning.

"See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity in his days. In the days of his son I will bring the calamity on his house."

And say: "How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised correction!

I was on the verge of total ruin, In the midst of the assembly and congregation."

[You who are] named the house of Jacob: "Is the Spirit of the LORD restricted? [Are] these His doings? Do not My words do good To him who walks uprightly?