But Micaiah said, “As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what the Lord tells me to say.”

The water has been pure to this very day, just as Elisha prophesied.

The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

Naaman went and told his master what the girl from the land of Israel had said.

They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he passed sentence on him.

He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

Nathan told David all these words that were revealed to him.

Now, O Lord, you are the true God; you have made this good promise to your servant.

Now, O Lord God of Israel, may the promise you made to your servant David be realized.

They sent for him and Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

But Micaiah said, “As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what my God tells me to say!”

Sennacherib’s servants further insulted the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah.

They talked about the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the man-made gods of the nations of the earth.

I recognized the fact that God had not sent him, for he had spoken the prophecy against me as a hired agent of Tobiah and Sanballat.

“Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

“But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking – how much of it goes away?

And I have waited. But because they do not speak, because they stand there and answer no more,

Is it your opinion that God should recompense it, because you reject this? But you must choose, and not I, so tell us what you know.