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1 Kings 22:3

Know ye that Ramoth in Gileadis ours The statement of Josephus (Ant. viii. 15, 3) is very probable, viz. that the father of Ben-hadad had taken Ramoth-gilead, with other cities, from Omri. Ben-hadad had stipulated, when he feared for his life (1 Kings 22:34), to restore these conquests, but apparently had not carried out this part of his covenant. He had found Ahab easy to deal with, and once safe back in Damascus, he thought former promises not very binding.

On Ramoth-gilead, see above, 1 Kings 4:13.

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See also 1 Kings 22:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    By the terms of Ahab’s covenant with Ben-hadad, Ramoth in Gilead ought, long ere this, to have been restored 1 Kings 20:34. Hence, the claim “is ours,” i. e., “it belongs to us of right though the Syr...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AND THE KING OF ISRAEL. Note the Figure of speech _Anadiplosis_ (App-6) with 1 Kings 22:2. RAMOTH. One of the Cities of Refuge. OURS. Given by Jehovah. Therefore presumably. "good work" to take it. B...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    I. FAITHLESS AHAB AND FEARLESS MICAIAH 22:1-40 Against the earnest protestations of a faithful prophet, the foolhardy Ahab organized a military campaign to try and recapture the Transjordan border tow...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE KING OF ISRAEL SAID UNTO HIS SERVANTS, KNOW YE THAT RAMOTH IN GILEAD IS OURS, AND WE BE STILL, AND TAKE IT NOT OUT OF THE HAND OF THE KING OF SYRIA?_ Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours -...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RAMOTH IN GILEAD] situated a little N. of the Jabbok (the modern es Salt). The city had perhaps been amongst those which had been taken from Omri by Benhadad I, king of Syria, and which his son, Benha...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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 *...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    RAMOTH IN GILEAD. — The city is first mentioned (in Deuteronomy 4:43; Joshua 20:8; Joshua 21:38) as a city of refuge in the territory of Gad; then (in...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר מֶֽלֶךְ ־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶל ־עֲבָדָ֔יו...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    ENTERING INTO A NEW PARTNERSHIP 1 Kings 22:1 It seems strange that so good a man as the king of Judah should have entered into such an alliance. It began with the marriage of Jehoram, son of Jehoshap...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that (c) Ramoth in Gilead [is] ours, and we [be] still, [and] take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria? (c) The kings of Syria kept Ramo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Syria. Benadad had not restored it; either because he no longer regarded his treaty, or because the city had not been taken by his father. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (3) And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria? (4) And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    (AND THE KING OF ISRAEL SAID UNTO HIS SERVANTS,.... His nobles, those of his privy council, his ministers of state; or "had said" n, some little time before Jehoshaphat came: KNOW YE THAT RAMOTH IN G...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead [is] ours, and we [be] still, [and] take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria? Ver. 3. _Know ye that Ramoth in Gile...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Know ye not that Ramoth in Gilead is ours?_ Belongeth to us by right, both by God's donation, and by our last agreement with Ben- hadad, 1 Kings 20:34. It is probable Ben-hadad had not made good his...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE SYRIANS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the king of Israel said unto his servants, at some time during Jehoshaphat's visit, KNOW YE THAT RAMOTH IN GILEAD, an important fortified city in the country east of Jordan, IS OURS, both by right...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    STILL, AND TAKE IT: _ Heb._ silent from taking it...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-14 The same easiness of temper, which betrays some godly persons into friendship with the declared enemies of religion, renders it very dangerous to them. They will be drawn to wink at and countena...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IS OURS, i.e. belongeth to us by right, both by God's donation, and designation of it for a city of refuge, JOSHUA 21:38, and by our last agreement with Ben-hadad, 1 KINGS 20:31, which he refuseth to...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 22:3 king H4428 Israel H3478 said H559 (H8799) servants H5650 know H3045 (H8804) Ramoth H7433 Gilead...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    AHAB AND JEHOSHAPHAT UNITE TO REGAIN RAMOTH-GILEAD FOR ISRAEL AND AHAB LEARNS FROM A PROPHET OF YHWH THAT THEY WILL BE SUCCESSFUL BUT THAT HE WILL DIE IN THE ATTEMPT (1 KINGS 22:1). Ahab's life has be...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the King of Syria?_ UNPOSSESSED POSSESSIONS I. What is ours and not ours. Every Christian man has large tracts of unanne...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE DEATH OF AHAB CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 22:2. JEHOSHAPHAT THE KING OF JUDAH CAME DOWN TO THE KING OF ISRAEL—This visit is accounted for in Chronicles (chap. 1 Kings 18:1): Jehoshap...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE EXPEDITION OF AHAB AND JEHOSHAPHAT AGAINST HRAMOTH-GILEAD. THE DEATH OF AHAB. THE REIGNS OF JEHOSHAPHAT AND AHAZIAH....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 4:13; 2 Samuel 19:10; Deuteronomy 4:43; Joshua 20:8; Judges 16

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Is ours — Belongeth to us by right. both by God's donation, and by our last agreement with Ben — hadad, 1 Kings 20:34, which yet he refuseth to deliver up....

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