But Micaiah replied, “As surely as the Lord lives, I will say only what the Lord tells me to say.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”
- KJV And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.
- BSB But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, I will speak whatever the LORD tells me.”
- NKJV And Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, whatever the Lord says to me, that I will speak.”
- NASB But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, whatever the Lord says to me, I shall speak it.”
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Micaiah refuses to bend, vowing on Yahweh's life to speak only what God tells him.
Overview
With a solemn oath, Micaiah declares that he is bound to God's actual word rather than to the king's wishes or popular opinion. His integrity models the faithfulness required of every true messenger of God. Such uncompromising fidelity foreshadows Christ and the prophets who spoke truth regardless of cost (Galatians 1:10).
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- Num 24:13‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond Yahweh’s word, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says’?
- 2 Chr 18:12–13The 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 good.”
- Num 22:18Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
- Num 22:38Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”
- Ezek 3:17–19“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
- Jer 26:2–3“Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.
- Jer 42:4Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you; behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.”
- 2 Cor 2:17For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
- 1 Kgs 18:10As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.
- 2 Cor 4:2But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
- Acts 20:26–27Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,
- Ezek 2:4–8The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh.’
- 1 Kgs 18:15Elijah said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”
- Gal 1:10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
- Jer 23:28The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.
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