Verse 1 Kings 22:13. The words of the prophets declare good] What notion could these men have of prophecy, when they supposed it was in the power of the prophet to model the prediction as he pleased, and have the result accordingly?
AND THE MESSENGER SPAKE UNTO HIM ... - There seems to have been a widespread notion among the irreligious and the half-religious of the ancient world, that their prophets were not the mere mouth-piece...
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...
WORD. So to be read; but written "words". In some codices, with three early printed editions, Syriac, and Vulgate, it is both written and read "word". Compare 2 Chronicles 18:12....
Micaiah's prophecy. Ahab, in displeasure, sends him to prison (2 Chronicles 18:12-27) 13. _And the messenger that was gone_[R.V. WENT] _to call Micaiah_ The tradition, which Josephus preserves, that t...
B. THE PROPHECY OF MICAIAH 22:13-28 TRANSLATION (13) Now the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah had said unto him, saying, Behold now the words of the prophets are unanimously good toward the k...
_AND ALL THE PROPHETS PROPHESIED SO, SAYING, GO UP TO RAMOTH-GILEAD, AND PROSPER: FOR THE LORD SHALL DELIVER IT INTO THE KING'S HAND._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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 *...
BEHOLD NOW. — In the whole history, as especially in the words of the officer, there is evidence of the strange confusion of idea, so common in superstition at all times, which in some sense believes...
וְ הַ מַּלְאָ֞ךְ אֲשֶׁר ־הָלַ֣ךְ ׀ לִ קְרֹ֣א
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...
WHAT JEHOVAH SAITH… THAT WILL I SPEAK 1 Kings 22:13 Ramoth was one of the cities of refuge, situated across the Jordan. The false prophets spake as they knew would please the king and gain the popula...
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...
And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets [declare] good unto the king with (m) one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the wo...
(9) Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah. (10) And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on the...
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 THE MESSENGER THAT WAS GONE TO CALL MICAIAH SPAKE UNTO HIM,.... By the way, as they came along together, as Josephus p observes: BEHOLD, NOW, THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS DECLARE GOOD UNTO THE KING...
And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets [declare] good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word o...
_Speak that which is good_ This was a most absurd request: for if Micaiah was a true prophet, he could say nothing but what was suggested to him by divine inspiration, and if he were not, why should h...
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 the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, in an effort to influence him and to shape his prophecy, SAYING, BEHOLD NOW, THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS DECLARE GOOD UNTO THE KING WITH O...
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE SYRIANS...
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...
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...
This he designs, not out of any love to Micaiah, (whom he persuades to debauch his conscience,) but merely out of a desire to gratify his king's humour....
1 Kings 22:13 messenger H4397 gone H1980 (H8804) call H7121 (H8800) Micaiah H4321 spoke H1696 (H8765) saying...
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...
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...
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...
_Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth._ PROPHETS OF SMOOTH SPEECH I. A certain fear of God is made to serve the selfish ends of worldly men. Here is a wicke...
_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
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...
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 Corinthians 2:14; Amos 7:13; Hosea 7:3; Isaiah 30:10; Isaiah 30:11