1Ki 22 | TSK | STEP | Ahab, seduced by false prophets, according to the word of Micaiah, is slain at Ramoth-gilead. The dogs lick up his blood, and Ahaziah succeeds him. Jehoshaphat's good reign. His acts. Jehoram succeeds him. Ahaziah's evil reign. A.M. 3104-3107. B.C. 900-897.

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

2-9; 2Ch 18:28

I will, etc. or, when he was to disguise himself, and enterinto the battle. put thou on.

10; Ps 12:2

disguised himself.

14:2; 20:38; 1Sa 28:8; 2Sa 14:2; 2Ch 18:29; 35:22; Pr 21:30

Jer 23:24

thirty and two.

20:24; 2Ch 18:30

Fight.

20:33-42

small nor great.

Ge 19:11; 1Sa 30:2; Jer 16:6

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

was brought. Heb. came.

and the dogs.

21:19; Jos 23:14,15; Isa 44:25,26; 48:3-5; Jer 44:21-23; Zec 1:4-6

Mt 24:35

A.M. 3086-3107. B.C. 918-897. the rest.

14:19; 15:23,31; 16:5,20,27

the ivory house.That is, probably, decorated with ivory in such abundance as to merit the appellation of an ivory house.

10:18,22; Ps 45:8; Eze 27:6,15; Am 3:15; 6:4

slept.

2:10; 11:21; 14:31; De 31:16; 2Sa 7:12

Ahaziah.

51; 2Ki 1:2,17; 2Ch 20:35

A.M. 3090. B.C. 914. Jehoshaphat.

2; 1Ch 3:10; 2Ch 17:1; 20:31

began to reign."Began to reign alone. ver. 51."

thirty and five.

2Ki 1:17; 8:16

And his mother's.

14:21; 15:2,10

he walked.

15:11,14; 2Ch 14:2-5,11; 15:8,17; 17:3

he turned.

15:5; Ex 32:8; 1Sa 12:20,21; 2Ch 16:7-12; Ps 40:4; 101:3; 125:5

Pr 4:27

doing.

2Ch 17:3-6; 19:3,4; 20:3-30

the high.

14:23; 15:14; 2Ki 12:3; 14:3,4; 15:3,4; 18:22

made peace.

2; 2Ki 8:18; 2Ch 19:2; 21:6; 2Co 6:14

Now.

are they.

11:41; 14:29

the remnant.

14:24; 15:12; Ge 19:5; De 23:17; Jud 19:22; Ro 1:26,27; 1Co 6:9

1Ti 1:10; Jude 1:7

no king.

Ge 25:23; 27:40; 36:31-43; 2Sa 8:14; 2Ki 3:9; 8:20; Ps 108:9,10

Jehoshaphat.

2Ch 20:35,36-21:1

made ships. or, had ten ships.

10:22; 2Ch 9:21; Ps 48:7; Isa 2:16; 60:9; Jon 1:3

Tharshish.Josephus and the Chaldee and Arabic paraphrasts explain this place of Tarsus in Cilicia; the LXX., Theodoret, and Jerome, understand it of Carthage; but the learned Bochart makes it Tartessus, an island in the straits of Gades. Ibn Haukal describes Tarsousa as belonging to Andalus, or Andalusia; and Festus Avienus expressly says, {Hic Gadir urbs est dicta Tartessus prius,} "the city Cadiz was formerly called Tartessus."

to Ophir.

9:28; Ps 45:9

they went not.

2Ch 20:37; 25:7

Ezion-geber.

9:26; Nu 33:35,36

A.M. 3115. B.C. 889. slept with his fathers.

40; 2:10; 2Ch 21:1

in the city.

11:43; 14:31; 15:24

Jehoram.

2Ki 8:16-18; 2Ch 21:5-7