1 Kings 20:13

God by a prophet promises the victory to Ahab. The Syrians are defeated (Not in Chronicles)

13. there came a prophet The Hebrew verb is not the common word for -to come." The R.V. has therefore translated it here, and in 1Ki 20:22; 1 Kings 20:28, by came near, as it is very frequently translated elsewhere in the A.V.

This prophet must have been one of those who were saved at the time of Jezebel's attempt to destroy them all. Obadiah had saved a hundred, and no doubt others also escaped. When Elijah complained -I, even I only, am left," the reason was that, through the persecution, a stop had been put to all prophetic activity. In the present strait we need not doubt that any messenger of good tidings would be welcome. So that there is nothing strange about the prophet's visit. The national thoughts were occupied on other things than the slaughter of Jehovah's prophets.