Darby's translation notes (1890)
1 Kings 22:38
22:38 bathed. (c-20) Some read, 'and the dogs licked his blood, and they washed his weapons.'
22:38 bathed. (c-20) Some read, 'and the dogs licked his blood, and they washed his weapons.'
Verse 38. _THE DOGS LICKED UP HIS BLOOD_] Some of the rabbins think that this was in the _very place_ where Naboth was stoned; see on 1 Kings 21:19. The _Septuagint_ translates this verse strangely:...
THEY WASHED HIS ARMOUR - Rather, “the harlots bathed in it.” The “pool of Samaria,” which was stained with Ahab’s blood by the washing of his chariot in it, was, according to Josephus, the usual bathi...
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...
_And_one [R.V. THEY] _washed the chariot in_[R.V. BY] _the pool of Samaria_ The first change substitutes an English for a Hebrew idiom; the second renders more exactly the preposition of the original....
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 THE BATTLE INCREASED THAT DAY: AND THE KING WAS STAYED UP IN HIS CHARIOT AGAINST THE SYRIANS, AND DIED AT EVEN: AND THE BLOOD RAN OUT OF THE WOUND INTO THE MIDST OF THE CHARIOT._ No JFB commenta...
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....
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 *...
THEY WASHED HIS ARMOUR. — There seems little doubt that this is a mistranslation, and that the LXX. rendering (supported also by Josephus) is correct: “And the harlots bathed in it,” that is, in the b...
וַ יִּשְׁטֹ֨ף אֶת ־הָ רֶ֜כֶב עַ֣ל ׀ בְּרֵכַ֣ת
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...
Of Samaria. Josephus says, of Jezara, (Jezrahel) conformably to the prediction. But God had relented in that particular, on Achab's repentance; (Calmet; Chap. xxi. 24, 29.) unless it regarded his son...
(38) And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake. (39) Now the rest of the acts...
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 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 ONE WASHED THE CHARIOT IN THE POOL OF SAMARIA,.... After the body was taken out, very likely the chariot driver, who drove it into the pool, and plunged it into it, as the word signifies, to clean...
And [one] washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake. Ver. 38. _In the pool of Samaria...
_The dogs licked up his blood_ Together with the water wherewith it was mixed. This circumstance is noticed because it was the accomplishment of one part of Elijah's prophecy concerning him. Now Nabot...
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 one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria, for this city, like others, had its reservoir; AND THE DOGS LICKED UP HIS BLOOD, as it flowed out of the chariot, mingled with water. AND THEY WASHED...
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...
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...
THE DOGS LICKED UP HIS BLOOD, together with the water wherewith it was mixed. ACCORDING UNTO THE WORD OF THE LORD; of which SEE POOLE ON "1 KINGS 21:19"....
1 Kings 22:38 washed H7857 (H8799) chariot H7393 pool H1295 Samaria H8111 dogs H3611 up H3952 (H8799) blood...
THE DEATH OF AHAB AND YHWH'S ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE DISPOSAL OF HIS BLOOD (1 KINGS 22:35). To his credit Ahab recognised that his absence from the battlefield would be a blow to his army's morale, and h...
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 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 22:37 I. Such glimpses of Ahab's life as we have in ver. 39 reveal him to us in a very different character from that which appears on the face of the Bible history. He would seem to have been...
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...
_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...
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 22:38 ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD. See 1 Kings 21:19, although that verse does not mention...
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 Kings 21:19; Isaiah 44:25; Isaiah 44:26; Isaiah 48:3; Jeremia