26-28. Take Micaiah, . . . Put this fellow in prison—Ahab, under the impulse of vehement resentment, remands the prophet until his return.

     27, 28. bread of affliction, water of affliction—that is, the poorest prison fare. Micaiah submitted, but reiterated aloud, in the presence of all, that the issue of the war would be fatal to Ahab.