2 Kings 3:13

Elisha rebukes Jehoram, telling him to consult his parents' false prophets, but the king pleads Yahweh's intent to destroy them. The prophet exposes the king's hypocrisy.

Cross-references · 16

• 1 Kgs 18:19Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
• 1 Kgs 22:6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
• Deut 32:37–39He will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge;
• 1 Kgs 22:22–25Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’
• 1 Kgs 22:10–11Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
• 2 Kgs 3:10The king of Israel said, “Alas! For Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
• Judg 10:14Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”
• 2 Cor 6:15What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?
• John 2:4Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”
• Hos 6:1“Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
• Ezek 14:3–5“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?
• Ruth 1:15She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”
• Jer 2:27–28who tell wood, ‘You are my father;’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me:’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us.’
• 2 Cor 5:16Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
• Prov 1:28Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
• Matt 8:29Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

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