28 And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, (A)the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, (B)“Hear, all you peoples!”

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The Coming Destruction

(A)Hear, you peoples, all of you;[a]
    (B)pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,
and (C)let the Lord God be a witness against you,
    (D)the Lord from his holy temple.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 1:2 Hebrew all of them

29 If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, (A)then the Lord has not sent me.

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10 and said, “You (A)son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and (B)villainy, will you not stop (C)making crooked (D)the straight paths of the Lord? 11 And now, behold, (E)the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time.” Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking (F)people to lead him by the hand.

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37 David himself calls him Lord. So (A)how is he his son?” And the great throng (B)heard him gladly.

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What Defiles a Person

14 And he called the people to him again and said to them, (A)“Hear me, all of you, and understand: 15 (B)There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:15 Some manuscripts add verse 16: If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear

Israel's Guilt and Punishment

(A)Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

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(A)The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms. (B)As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the Lord has truly sent the prophet.”

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26 (A)who confirms the word of his servant
    and fulfills the counsel of his messengers,
who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’
    (B)and of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built,
    and I will raise up their ruins’;

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27 And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, (A)“Hear, all you peoples!”

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12 But Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, (A)let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

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10 But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, (A)let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

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36 And at the time of (A)the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O Lord, (B)God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that (C)you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that (D)I have done all these things at your word. 37 Answer me, O Lord, answer me, that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.”

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21 And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long (A)will you go limping between two different opinions? (B)If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word. 22 Then Elijah said to the people, (C)“I, even I only, am left a prophet of the Lord, but Baal's prophets are (D)450 men. 23 Let two bulls be given to us, and let them choose one bull for themselves and cut it in pieces and lay it on the wood, but put no fire to it. And I will prepare the other bull and lay it on the wood and put no fire to it. 24 And you call upon the name of your god, and I will call upon the name of the Lord, and the God who (E)answers by fire, he is God.” And all the people answered, “It is well spoken.”

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20 (A)But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or[a] who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— 22 (B)when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; (C)the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 18:20 Or and

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