וַיֹּ֖אמֶר מִיכָ֑יְהוּ חַי יְהוָ֕ה כִּ֛י אֶת אֲשֶׁר יֹאמַ֥ר אֱלֹהַ֖י אֹת֥וֹ אֲדַבֵּֽר
Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Chronicles 18:13
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Chronicles 18:13 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, surely that which my God says, it I will speak.”
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, I will speak whatever my God tells me.”
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, I will speak whatever my God tells me.”
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King James Version Public Domain
And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Micaiah said, As Jehovah liveth, what my God saith, that will I speak.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what my God saith, that will I speak.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Michaiah saide, As the Lord liueth, whatsoeuer my God saith, that will I speake.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Micheas answered him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever my God shall say to me, that will I speak.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And Micaiah saith `Jehovah liveth, surely that which my God saith, it I speak.'
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And Micaiah says “YHWH lives, surely that which my God says, I speak it.”
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Micaiah replied, “As Yahweh lives, it is what God says that I will say.”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, surely that which my God says, it I will speak.”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And Micah said, As Jehovah liveth, even what my God shall say, that will I declare.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, I will say what my God says.”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
But Micaiah replied, “As the Lord lives, I can only say what my God tells me.”
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Micaiah said, By the living Lord, whatever the Lord says to me I will say.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And Micaiah said: 'As the LORD liveth, what my God saith, that will I speak.'
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מִיכָ֑יְהוּ
Mîykâyᵉhûw
H4321
“Micaiah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 19× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Kings 22:8
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Micah or Micaiah or Michaiah = "who is like God"
- an Ephraimite during the period of the judges
- son of Imlah and a prophet of Samaria who predicted the defeat and death of king Ahab of Israel
- son of Gemariah in the time of Jeremiah
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶר ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מִיכָ֑יְהוּ Mîykâyᵉhûw H4321 “Micaiah” Noun, Proper
- חַי chay H2416 “living” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- יְהוָ֕ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
- כִּ֛י kîy H3588 “that” Conjunction
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
- יֹאמַ֥ר ʼâmar H559 “to say” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֱלֹהַ֖י ʼĕlôhîym H430 “God(s) · my” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- אֹת֥וֹ ʼêth H853 “- · him” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֲדַבֵּֽר dâbar H1696 “to speak” Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מִיכָ֑יְהוּ Micaiah H4321 — appearing just 19 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מִיכָ֑יְהוּ Micaiah H4321 occurs in 19 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 1 conjunction
- 3 particles
Verb forms
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- יֹאמַ֥ר Qal · Imperfect
- אֲדַבֵּֽר Piel · Imperfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶר to say H559 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 17 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 15 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Cross-references
15Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 18:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Numbers 22:35 The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
- Numbers 22:18–20 Balaam answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
- Numbers 24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad of my own mind; what Yahweh speaks, that will I speak?
- Numbers 23:12 He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?
- Numbers 23:26 But Balaam answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?
- 1 Kings 22:14 Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that will I speak.
- Jeremiah 23:28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 42:4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.
- Ezekiel 2:7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
- Micah 2:6–7 "Don't you prophesy!" They prophesy. "Don't prophesy about these things. Disgrace won't overtake us."
- Acts 20:27 for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
- 1 Corinthians 11:23 For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.
- 2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
- Galatians 1:10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί εἶπον μιχαιας ζάω κύριος ὅτι ὅς ἐάν εἶπον ὁ θεός πρός ἐγώ αὐτός λαλέω
And Michaias said, As the Lord lives, whatever God shall say to me, that will I speak.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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Lesson kit
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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mîykâyᵉhûw (“Micaiah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Micaiah” (Mîykâyᵉhûw) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does 1 Kings 22:8, which shares the word «Micaiah», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “to say” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «וַיֹּ֖אמֶר» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 15 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- “to say” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 18:13 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.