Judg 20:28, 1Sa 28:6, 30:8, 2Sa 5:23, 1Ki 22:6, 15-23, Pro 3:6 | TSK | STEP | Phinehas.It is evident, from this mention of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, that these transactions must have taken place not long after the death of Joshua. stood. Shall I yet. Go up.

Judges 20:28

Phinehas.It is evident, from this mention of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, that these transactions must have taken place not long after the death of Joshua.

Nu 25:7-13; Jos 22:13,30-32; 24:33

stood.

De 10:8; 18:5

Shall I yet.

Jos 7:7; 1Sa 14:37; 23:4-12; 30:8; 2Sa 5:19-24; 6:3,7-12; Pr 3:5,6

Jer 10:23

Go up.

1:2; 7:9; 2Ch 20:17

1 Samuel 28:6

enquired.

14:37; 1Ch 10:14; Pr 1:,27,28; La 2:9; Eze 20:1-3; Joh 9:31

Jas 4:3

by dreams.

Ge 28:12-15; 46:2-4; Nu 12:6; Job 33:14-16; Jer 23:28; Mt 1:20

by Urim.

Ex 28:20; Nu 27:21; De 33:8

by prophets.

Ps 74:9; La 2:9; Eze 20:3

1 Samuel 30:8

enquired.

23:2,4,10-12; Jud 20:18,23,28; 2Sa 5:19,23; Pr 3:5,6

he answered him.

14:37; 28:6,15,16; Nu 27:21; Ps 50:15; 91:15

2 Samuel 5:23

enquired.

fetch.

Jos 8:2,7; 1Ch 14:14; Mt 9:29,30; 8:23-25; Joh 9:6,7

the mulberry trees.The word {bechaïm,} rendered mulberry trees, is rendered by Aquila, [apion,] pear-trees, as the LXX. also render in 1 Ch 14:14, 15; and so the Vulgate in both places has {pyrorum.} The Rabbins, however, believe {bacha} signifies the mulberry-tree; with whom Ursinus agrees. It more probably denotes a large shrub which the Arabs still call {baca,} from its distilling an odoriferous gum, from {bachah} to distil, as tears. Of this opinion is Celsius, who quotes a passage from Abulfadi, who describes it as a balsam shrub, having longish leaves, and bearing a large fruit with an acrid taste. M. Forskal mentions a tree by the name of {bæca,} with leaves rather ovated, smooth, entire: its berries are poisonous to the sheep.

1 Kings 22:6

the prophets together.

18:19; 2Ti 4:3

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."

1 Kings 22:15-23

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.