The joints — Where the several parts of his armour were joined together. The only place about him where this arrow of death could find entrance. No armour is proof against the darts of divine vengeance. Case the criminal in steel, and it is all one: he that made him, can make his sword approach him. And that which to us seems altogether casual, comes by the determinate counsel of God.
Verse 34. _DREW A BOW AT A VENTURE_] It is supposed that he shot, as the archers in general did, not aiming at any person in particular. The word לתמו _lethummo_, which we translate _in his simplici...
AT A VENTURE - literally, as in the margin, i. e. without intent to kill the king. BETWEEN THE JOINTS OF THE HARNESS - literally, as in the margin. The “joints” were probably pieces of armor which at...
CHAPTER 22 THE DEATH OF AHAB _ 1. Jehoshaphat and Ahab (1 Kings 22:1)_ 2. The prophet Micaiah (1 Kings 22:13) 3. The battle and Ahab's death (1 Kings 22:29) 4. Jehoshaphat of Judah ...
AHAB'S ATTACK ON RAMOTH-GILEAD AND HIS DEATH. The death of Ahab must have taken place before or during the year 854 B.C., when the battle of Qarqara was fought, and his name is mentioned in the Assyri...
AT. VENTURE. in his innocence, or to its full stretch. HARNESS. coat of mail. TURN THINE HAND. This is Ahab's history; 2 Chronicles 18 is Jehoshaphat's. Hence nothing about Jehovah's help....
_And a_certain _man_ Josephus has given him a name. -A certain youth of the royal family of Adad [i.e. Ben-hadad] whose name was Aman." -Fate, the inevitable," he says, -found Ahab out even without hi...
C. THE DEATH OF AHAB 22:29-38 TRANSLATION (29) And the king of Israel went up along with Jehoshaphat to Ramoth-gilead. (30) And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and e...
_AND A CERTAIN MAN DREW A BOW AT A VENTURE, AND SMOTE THE KING OF ISRAEL BETWEEN THE JOINTS OF THE HARNESS: WHEREFORE HE SAID UNTO THE DRIVER OF HIS CHARIOT, TURN THINE HAND, AND CARRY ME OUT OF THE H...
22:34 wounded. (b-41) Or 'have sickened.' see 2 Kings 8:29 ....
AHAB AND MICAIAH. AHAB'S DEATH AT RAMOTH-GLLEAD. REIGN OF JEHOSHAPHAT, KING OF JUDAH 1. Three years] probably calculated from the peace described in 1 Kings 20:34....
AT A VENTURE] Not without a definite aim, but in ignorance that his mark was the king of Israel (RM 'in his simplicity')....
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 22 THE *PROPHET MICAIAH V1 There was peace between Syria and *Israel for almost three years. V2 In the third year Jehoshaphat, king of *...
A CERTAIN MAN. — Josephus says, “a young man named Naaman.” (Comp. 2 Kings 5:1 : “because by him the Lord had given deliverance to Syria.”) THE DRIVER OF HIS CHARIOT. — In the Egyptian and Assyrian mo...
וְ אִ֗ישׁ מָשַׁ֤ךְ בַּ † קֶּ֨שֶׁת֙ לְ...
ALONE AGAINST THE WORLD 1 Kings 22:1 "I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied I have heard what the prophets said, who prophesied lies in My name...
THE BOW AT A VENTURE EXECUTES GOD'S SENTENCE 1 Kings 22:29 The cup of Ahab's sins was full, and the arrow at a venture executed divine retribution. Had Micaiah not spoken, men would have attributed t...
The final movement in the downfall of Ahab is here chronicled. Jehoshaphat visited Ahab, who suggested the alliance against the king of Syria. Jehoshaphat suggested an appeal to Jehovah. Ahab produced...
Stomach. Paralipomenon, between the neck and the shoulders. The arrow went in at the lungs, and came out at the shoulders, as it was shot from a lower ground. (Menochius) --- Some explain the Hebrew,...
(34) And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of t...
The days were very dark in Israel. Not only rebellion. And rebellion, always serious, was peculiarly so in Israel, for there it was insubordination in a direct manner against not only God's providence...
_THE LAST ACT OF A TRAGEDY_ ‘Carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.’ 1 Kings 22:34 King Ahab appears here in the last act of his career, just as we have seen him always hitherto, devoid of rel...
The last chapter presents another element of this history, namely, the guilty alliances which were formed between the royal families of Israel and Judah. Both of them prosperous at this period, they s...
AND A CERTAIN MAN DREW A BOW AT A VENTURE,.... Not aiming at the king of Israel, or knowing whereabout he was. In the Targum on 2 Chronicles 18:33, this man is said to be Naaman, the general of the a...
And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the...
_A certain man drew a bow at a venture_ Shot at a venture among the army, without care, or choice, or any design of reaching Ahab, or any particular person; _and smote the king of Israel between the j...
1 Ahab seduced by false prophets, according to the word of Micaiah, is slaine at Ramoth Gilead. 37 The dogges licke vp his blood, and Ahaziah succeedeth him. 41 Iehoshaphats good reigne, 45 his act...
And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, without being conscious of the fact that the man he aimed at, who wore the clothing of an ordinary soldier, was the king of Israel, AND SMOTE THE KING OF ISR...
THE DEATH OF AHAB...
AHAB WARNED BUT DETERMINED (vs.1-28) Three years later the show of repentance on Ahab's part had worn off. There had been no war between Israel and Syria, but rather than leaving matters as they were...
AT A VENTURE: _ Heb._ in his simplicity JOINTS OF THE HARNESS: _ Heb._ joints and the breastplate WOUNDED: _ Heb._ made sick...
29-40 Ahab basely intended to betray Johoshaphat to danger, that he might secure himself. See what they get that join with wicked men. How can it be expected that he should be true to his friend, who...
AT A VENTURE, Heb. _in simplicity_, i.e. ignorantly, without care, or choice, or any design, or thought of reaching Ahab. Or, _according to his perfection_, i.e. with his perfect or utmost strength; w...
1 Kings 22:34 man H376 drew H4900 (H8804) bow H7198 random H8537 struck H5221 (H8686) king H4428 Israel...
THE BATTLE FOR RAMOTH-GILEAD AND THE DEATH OF AHAB (1 KINGS 22:30) The prophetic author is not really interested in the details of the battle. His concern is with the failure of the subterfuge which s...
THE FAILURE OF THE SUBTERFUGE TO PREVENT THE FULFILMENT OF MICAIAH'S PROPHECY (1 KINGS 22:30). With what Micaiah had prophesied in mind Ahab was determined to demonstrate that he was wrong. Both he an...
THE FINAL FATE OF AHAB IS SEALED (1 KINGS 22:1). As we have seen, prophets have featured all through Ahab's reign, and here they feature to the end. Ahab could never argue that he had not been given...
1 Kings 22:34 I. There is a singular analogy between the present state of knowledge and of piety; in this age literature and religion fare much alike. In the Dark Ages literature was the monopoly of t...
CONTENTS: Alliance of Ahab and Jehosophat. Ahab's ultimate defeat. CHARACTERS: God, Jehoshaphat, Ahab, Micaiah, Zedekiah, Syrian king, false prophets, Ahaziah. CONCLUSION: He who joins himself in af...
1 Kings 22:2. _Jehoshaphat_ had married his son Jehoram to Athaliah, daughter of Jezebel; probably from the idea that the connection would prevent internal war for the future: oh fatal mistake! 1 King...
_A certain man drew a bow at a venture._ PROVIDENCE IN ACCIDENTS I. The lord’s hand is concerned in those events which have the appearance of being wholly accidental, and of happening by chance or lu...
_Jehoshaphat the King of Judah._ CHARACTER OF JEHOSHAPHAT In Ahab we have an instance of a wicked man partially reclaimed, frequently arrested, but yet finally hardened in his iniquity. In Jehoshapha...
CHEATING GOD And the king of Israel said,... I will disguise myself, and go into the battle.... And a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the ha...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 22:1 Although the house of Ahab is under a prophetic curse, the complete fulfillment of the prophecy will be delayed until the reign of Ahab’s son (see 1 Kings 21:27). Howev
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 22:34 BETWEEN THE SCALE ARMOR AND THE BREASTPLATE. The arrow shot AT RANDOM flies to one of the few undefended spots on Ahab’s body. Micaiah is proven to be a true prophet....
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 22:32. THEY TURNED ASIDE TO FIGHT AGAINST HIM—יּסָרֻו—they turned to him. _Sept._ has εκύκλωσαν, _surrounded_ him. 1 Kings 22:34.—DREW A BOW AT A VENTURE—_Lit...
EXPOSITION THE EXPEDITION OF AHAB AND JEHOSHAPHAT AGAINST HRAMOTH-GILEAD. THE DEATH OF AHAB. THE REIGNS OF JEHOSHAPHAT AND AHAZIAH....
So they went for three years without war between Syria and Israel. And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat who was the king of the southern tribes Judah, he came up to visit Ahab. And...
1 Samuel 17:49; 2 Chronicles 18:30; 2 Chronicles 35:23; 2 Kings 9:24;...