1Ki 22:6-15, 32-36, 2Ch 35:22 | TSK | STEP | the prophets together. Go up. the Lord.This prophecy is couched in the ambiguous terms in which the heathen oracles were delivered. It may mean, either "The Lord will deliver it (Ramoth Gilead) into the king's (Ahab's) hand;" or, "The Lord will deliver (Israel) into the king's (of Syria) hand." So in the famous reply of the Delphian oracle to Pyrrhus: {Aio te Æacida, Romanos vincere posse: Ibis redibis nunquam in bello peribis;} "I say to thee, Pyrrhus the Romans shall overcome: thou shalt go, thou shalt return never in war shalt thou perish."

1 Kings 22:6-15

the prophets together.

Go up.

15,22,23; 2Ch 18:14; Jer 5:31; 8:10,11; 14:13,14; 23:14-17

Jer 28:1-9; Eze 13:7-16,22; Mt 7:15; 2Pe 2:1-3; Re 19:20

the Lord.This prophecy is couched in the ambiguous terms in which the heathen oracles were delivered. It may mean, either "The Lord will deliver it (Ramoth Gilead) into the king's (Ahab's) hand;" or, "The Lord will deliver (Israel) into the king's (of Syria) hand." So in the famous reply of the Delphian oracle to Pyrrhus: {Aio te Æacida, Romanos vincere posse: Ibis redibis nunquam in bello peribis;} "I say to thee, Pyrrhus the Romans shall overcome: thou shalt go, thou shalt return never in war shalt thou perish."

Is there not.

2Ki 3:11-13; 2Ch 18:6,7

yet one man.

18:4; 19:10,14; 20:41,42

but I hate him.

27; 20:43; 21:20; Ge 37:8; 2Ch 36:16; Ps 34:21; Pr 9:8; 15:12

Isa 49:7; Jer 18:18; 20:10; 43:3,4; Am 5:10; Zec 11:8; Mt 10:22

Joh 3:19-21; 7:7; 15:18,19; 17:14; Ga 4:16; Re 11:7-10

good.

13; Isa 30:10; Jer 38:4; Mic 2:11

concerning me.

20:35-42; 2Ki 9:22; Isa 3:11; 57:19-21

Let not the.

21:27-29; Pr 5:12-14; Mic 2:7

officer. or, eunuch.

2Ki 9:32; 2Ch 18:8; Isa 39:7; Da 1:18

Hasten.

26,27

having put.

30; Es 5:1; 6:8,9; Mt 6:20; 11:8; Ac 12:21; 25:23

void place. Heb. floor. all the prophets.

18:29; 2Ch 18:9-11; Jer 27:14-16; Eze 13:1-9

horns of iron.

Jer 27:2; 28:10-14; Zec 1:18-21; Ac 19:13-16; 2Co 11:13-15

2Ti 3:8

Thus saith.

Jer 23:17,25,31; 28:2,3; 29:21; Eze 13:6-9; 22:27,28; Mic 3:11

Go up.

6-15,32-36; 2Ch 35:22

Behold now.

Ps 10:11; 11:1; 14:1; 50:21; Isa 30:10,11; Ho 7:3; Am 7:13-17

Mic 2:6,7,11; 1Co 2:14-16

what the Lord.

Nu 22:38; 24:13; 2Ch 18:12,13; Jer 23:28; 26:2,3; 42:4; Eze 2:4-8

Eze 3:17-19; Ac 20:26,27; 2Co 2:17; 4:2; Ga 1:10

shall we go.

Go and prosper.This was strong irony; they were the precise words of the false prophets; but were spoken by Micaiah in such a tone and manner as at once shewed Ahab that he did not believe, but ridiculed these words of uncertainty. The reply of the Delphian oracle to Crosesus was as ambiguous as that returned to Pyrrhus, {Croesus Halym penetrans magnam pervertet opum vim,} "If Croesus crosses the Halys, he will overthrow a great empire." This he understood of the empire of Cyrus; the event proved it to be his own: he was deluded, yet the oracle maintained its credit.

18:27; Jud 10:14; 2Ki 3:13; 2Ch 18:14; Ec 11:9; Mt 26:45

1 Kings 22:32-36

they turned.

Pr 13:20

Jehoshaphat.

Ex 14:10; 2Ch 18:31; Ps 50:15; 91:15; 116:1,2; 130:1-4; Jon 2:1,2

that they turned.

31; Ps 76:10

at a venture. Heb. in his simplicity.

2Sa 15:11

and smote.

1Sa 17:49; 2Ki 9:24

joints of the harness. Heb. joints and the breast-plate.

Re 9:9

wounded. Heb. made sick.

2Ch 18:30; 35:23; *margins

Mic 6:13

increased. Heb. ascended. died at even.

28; 20:42

midst. Heb. bosom.

there went.

17,31; 12:16; 2Ki 14:12

Every man.

12:24; Jud 7:7,8; 21:24; 1Sa 4:10; 2Sa 19:8; 2Ki 14:12

2 Chronicles 35:22

Nevertheless.Josiah's conduct in this affair has been treated with great severity; and he has been charged with engaging rashly in an unjust war, and disregarding the express command of God. But Scripture no where condemns him; and Pharaoh, in marching through Josiah's territories, against his will, certainly committed an act of hostility. It is evident that Josiah was in possession of the whole land of Israel (ch. 26:6); and probably he held the northern parts of it as a grant from the king of Babylon; and was not only in alliance with him, but bound to guard his frontiers against hostile invaders. He may, therefore, be fairly justified from the charge of unjustly meddling in a war that did not belong him. It is true the ambassadors assured Josiah, that "God had commanded Pharaoh to make haste;" and he is therefore said not to have "hearkened to the words of Necho, from the mouth of God." But Necho produced no proof that he was a prophet of Jehovah; and the word he employed, {elohim,} may denote gods or idols; and critics have noticed that the expression, "from the mouth of God," is not used when the true God is meant.

but disguised.

18:29; 1Ki 14:2; 22:30,34

the mouth.

21; 18:4-6; Jos 9:14

Megiddo.

Jud 5:19; 2Ki 9:27; 23:30; Zec 12:11

Megiddon.

Re 16:16

Armageddon.