Quotes about Israel
This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.
— 1 Kings 21:21
I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked My anger and caused Israel to sin.’
— 1 Kings 21:22
Then three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.
— 1 Kings 22:1
However, in the third year, Jehoshaphat king of Judah went down to visit the king of Israel,
— 1 Kings 22:2
So the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and asked them, “Should I go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should I refrain?” “Go up,” they replied, “and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
— 1 Kings 22:6
The king of Israel answered, “There is still one man who can ask the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, but only bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.
— 1 Kings 22:8
So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”
— 1 Kings 22:9
Dressed in royal attire, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them.
— 1 Kings 22:10
So Micaiah declared: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These people have no master; let each one return home in peace.’”
— 1 Kings 22:17
Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he never prophesies good for me, but only bad?”
— 1 Kings 22:18
And the king of Israel declared, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,
— 1 Kings 22:26
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
— 1 Kings 22:29