5 So the king of Israel collected the prophets+ together, four hundred men, and said to them: “Shall we go against Raʹmoth-gilʹe·ad in war, or shall I refrain?”+ And they began to say: “Go up, and the [true] God will give [it] into the king’s hand.”

31 The prophets themselves actually prophesy in falsehood;+ and as for the priests, they go subduing according to their powers.*+ And my own people have loved [it] that way;+ and what will YOU men do in the finale of it?”+

30 “Therefore here I am against the prophets,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah, “the ones who are stealing away my words, each one from his companion.”+