What Does 2 Chronicles 18:13 Mean?
And Micaiah said, As the LORD lives, even what my God says, that will I speak.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
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King James Version
And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak.THE KEY
The room may set the expected answer, but it cannot become the source of a true word.
THE MEANING
When a room has already decided which answer it wants, this verse gives your speech a different measure: what God says. It shows speech carrying a received word into the open, even when the preferred answer points elsewhere. The living God, not the room’s consensus, remains the source.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the lie that a word becomes true because everyone agrees to say it.
THE ROOT
אֲדַבֵּר
ʾadabbēr
GROWS FROM
דבר
d-b-r
speak, declare
דָּבָר (dāḇār) can mean both “word” and “matter” or “thing,” while the verb דִּבֵּר (dibbēr) means “speak”: the root folds what is spoken together with the matter being carried. Micaiah’s voice is presented as carrying God’s word, not inventing a second source.
ALSO GROWS
dāḇār: word; matter; thing
דָּבָר
This noun shares the root with “speak,” linking the words Micaiah voices to the substance they carry.
medabbēr: one speaking; speaker
מְדַבֵּר
This form names the speaker through the same root, making speech the act by which Micaiah carries the received word.
יֹאמַר
yōmar
GROWS FROM
אמר
ʾ-m-r
say, utter
“saith” in this verse is yōmar. The verse uses אָמַר (ʾāmar, “say”) for God’s utterance and דָּבַר (dāḇar, “speak”) for Micaiah’s response. The roots distinguish the source’s saying from the human voice that carries it, then join them in one chain.
ALSO GROWS
ʾimrāh: utterance; word
אִמְרָה
This noun shows that what is said can be held as a word, the content Micaiah carries forward.
ʾōmer: saying; speech
אֹמֶר
This related form keeps attention on the utterance itself, which sets the content of Micaiah’s speech.
THE PATTERN
Speech faithful to God carries what is received, even when another answer is expected.
I raise up for them a prophet from among their brothers, like you, and I set my words in his mouth, and he speaks to them all that I command him.The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken; who will not prophesy?For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father who sent me has given me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.THE THREAD
I raise up for them a prophet from among their brothers, like you, and I set my words in his mouth, and he speaks to them all that I command him.The root דבר (d-b-r) links “my words” with “he shall speak” in this verse. It opens Micaiah’s answer as the same movement: God’s word is carried through a human voice.
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