1 Kings 22:13

22:13 Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. ¹  Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success.” ² 

Isaiah 30:10

30:10 They ³  say to the visionaries, “See no more visions!”

and to the seers, “Don’t relate messages to us about what is right! ⁴ 

Tell us nice things,

relate deceptive messages. ⁵ 

Jeremiah 38:4

38:4 So these officials said to the king, “This man must be put to death. For he is demoralizing ⁶  the soldiers who are left in the city as well as all the other people there by these things he is saying. ⁷  This ⁸  man is not seeking to help these people but is trying to harm them.” ⁹ 

Micah 2:11

2:11 If a lying windbag should come and say, ¹⁰ 

‘I’ll promise you blessings of wine and beer,’ ¹¹ 

he would be just the right preacher for these people! ¹² 

[22:13]  ¹ tn Heb “the words of the prophets are [with] one mouth good for the king.”

[22:13]  ² tn Heb “let your words be like the word of each of them and speak good.”

[30:10]  ³ tn Heb “who” (so NASB, NRSV). A new sentence was started here in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[30:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “Do not see for us right things.”

[30:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “Tell us smooth things, see deceptive things.”

[38:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “weakening the hands of.” For this idiom see BDB 951 s.v. רָפָה Pi. and compare the usage in Isa 13:7; Ezek 21:7 (21:12 HT).

[38:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “by saying these things.”

[38:4]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew particle כִּי (ki) has not been rendered here because it is introducing a parallel causal clause to the preceding one. To render “For” might be misunderstood as a grounds for the preceding statement. To render “And” or “Moreover” sounds a little odd here. If it must be represented, “Moreover” is perhaps the best rendering.

[38:4]  ⁹ tn Or “is not looking out for these people’s best interests but is really trying to do them harm”; Heb “is not seeking the welfare [or “well-being”; Hebrew shalom] of this people but [their] harm [more literally, evil].”

[2:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “if a man, coming [as] wind and falsehood, should lie”; NASB “walking after wind and falsehood”; NIV “a liar and a deceiver.”

[2:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I will foam at the mouth concerning wine and beer.”

[2:11]  ¹² tn Heb “he would be the foamer at the mouth for this people.”