7 At that the king of Israel said to Je·hoshʹa·phat:+ “There is still one man+ through whom to inquire of Jehovah, but I myself certainly hate him,+ for he is prophesying concerning me, not for good, but, all his days, for bad.+ He is Mi·caiʹah* the son of Imʹlah.”+ However, Je·hoshʹa·phat said: “Do not let the king say a thing like that.”+

10 who have said to the ones seeing, ‘YOU must not see,’ and to the ones having visions, ‘YOU must not envision for us any straightforward things.+ Speak to us smooth* things; envision deceptive things.+

4 And the princes began to say to the king: “Let this man,* please, be put to death,+ for that is how he is weakening the hands of the men of war who are left remaining in this city and the hands of all the people, by speaking to them according to these words.+ For this man is one seeking not for the peace of this people but for calamity.”