¹² The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth: let your word therefore, Please be like one of theirs, and speak you good.

² that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

¹³ You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

¹¹ He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

¹⁰ who tell the seers, "Don't see;" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,

³ They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.

¹³ but don't prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house!"

⁶ "Don't you prophesy!" They prophesy. "Don't prophesy about these things. Disgrace won't overtake us."

¹¹ 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.

¹⁴ Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁵ But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

¹⁶ "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have Christ's mind.