Jos 21:38-39, 1Ki 22:3-28, 2Ki 9:1, 1Ch 6:73 | TSK | STEP

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

shall I adjure.

Jos 6:26; 1Sa 14:24; 2Ch 18:15; Mt 26:63; Mr 5:7; Ac 19:13

that thou tell.

Jer 42:3-6; Mt 22:16,17

I saw.

1Sa 9:9; Jer 1:11-16; Eze 1:4; Ac 10:11-17

as sheep.

34-36; Nu 27:17; 2Ch 18:16,17; Jer 23:1,2; 50:6,17; Eze 34:4-6

Zec 10:2; 13:7; Mt 9:36

Did I not tell.

8; Pr 10:24; 27:22; 29:1; Lu 11:45

Hear thou.

Isa 1:10; 28:14; Jer 2:4; 29:20; 42:15; Eze 13:2; Am 7:16

I saw the Lord.Micaiah evidently gives here an account of what appeared to him in a vision: many of the circumstances must be considered as parabolical; for truth, rather than facts, is revealed in such representations.

2Ch 18:18-22; Isa 6:1-3; Eze 1:26-28; Da 7:9,10; Ac 7:55,56

Re 4:2,3

all the host.

Job 1:6; 2:1; Ps 103:20,21; Isa 6:2,3; Zec 1:10; Mt 18:10; 25:31

Heb 1:7,14; 12:22; Re 5:11

persuade. or, deceive.

Job 12:16; Jer 4:10; Eze 14:9

23; Job 1:6,7; 2:1

a lying spirit.

Job 1:8-11; 2:4-6; Joh 8:44; Ac 5:3,4; 2Th 2:9,10; 1Ti 4:1; 1Jo 4:6

Re 12:9,10; 13:14; 16:13,14; 20:3,7,10

Thou shalt.

20; Jud 9:23; Job 12:16; Ps 109:17; 2Th 2:10-12; Re 17:17

behold, the Lord.

Ex 4:21; 10:20; De 2:30; 2Ch 25:16; Isa 6:9,10; 44:20; Eze 14:3-5,9

Mt 13:13-15; 24:24,25

and the Lord.

8-11; 20:42; 21:19; Nu 23:19,20; 24:13; Isa 3:11

Zedekiah.

smote Micaiah.

2Ch 18:23,24; Isa 50:5,6; La 3:30; Mic 5:1; Mr 14:65; 15:19,20

Joh 15:18,20; Ac 23:2

Which way.

Jer 28:10,11; 29:26,27; Mt 26:68; 27:42,43

Behold.

Nu 31:8; Isa 9:14-16; Jer 23:15; 28:16,17; 29:21,22,32; Am 7:17

2Pe 2:1; Re 19:20

into an inner chamber. or, from chamber to chamber. Heb. achamber in a chamber.

20:30; *marg:

carry him back.

Put this fellow.

2Ch 16:10; 18:25-27; Jer 20:2; 29:26; 37:15; 38:6; La 3:53-55

Mr 6:17-28; Lu 3:20; Ac 5:18; 16:23,24; 24:25-27; 26:10; Eph 3:1

Re 2:10

bread of affliction.

De 16:3; Ps 80:5; 102:9; 127:2; Isa 30:20

until I come in peace.

Lu 12:45,46; 1Th 5:2,3; Jas 4:13,14

If thou return.

Nu 16:29; De 18:20-22; 2Ki 1:10,12; Isa 44:26; Jer 28:8,9

Ac 13:10,11

Hearken.

18:21-24,36,37; 2Ch 18:27; Am 3:1; Mic 1:2; Mr 7:14-16; 12:37

2 Kings 9:1

1 Elisha sends a young prophet with instructions to anoint Jehu at Ramoth-gilead.

4 The prophet having done his message, flees.

11 Jehu, being made king by the soldiers, kills Joram in the field of Naboth.

27 Ahaziah is slain at Gur, and buried at Jerusalem.

30 Proud Jezebel is thrown down out of a window, and eaten by dogs.

one.The Jews say that this was Jonah, the prophet, the son of Amittai.

the children.

4:1; 6:1-3

See on

1Ki 20:35

Gird up thy loins.As the upper garments of the Orientals were long and flowing, it was indispensably necessary to tuck up the skirts with a girdle about their loins, in order to use any expedition in their work or on a journey.

4:29; 1Ki 18:46; Jer 1:17; Lu 12:35-37; 1Pe 1:13

box of oil.

1Sa 10:1; 16:1; 1Ki 1:39

Ramoth-gilead.

8:28,29; De 4:1,3; 1Ki 22:4,20

Joshua 21:38-39

1 Kings 22:3-28

2 Kings 9:1

1 Chronicles 6:73