1 Kings 22
1 Ahab, seduced by false prophets, according to the word of Micaiah, is slain at Ramoth-gilead.
37 The dogs lick up his blood, and Ahaziah succeeds him.
41 Jehoshaphat's good reign.
45 His acts.
46 Jehoram succeeds him.
51 Ahaziah's evil reign.
[A.M. 3104-3107. B.C. 900-897.]
third <07992> [A.M. 3107. B.C. 897. in the third.]
Jehoshaphat <03092> [Jehoshaphat.]
Ramoth <07433> [Ramoth.]
hesitant <02814> [still. Heb. silent from taking it.]
<03212> [Wilt thou go.]
support <03644> [I am as thou.]
seek <01875> [Enquire.]
assembled ..... prophets <05030 06908> [the prophets together.]
Attack <05927> [Go up.]
sovereign <0136> [the Lord.]
This prophecy is couched in the ambiguous terms in which the heathen oracles were delivered. It may mean, either "The Lord will deliver it (Ramoth Gilead) into the king's (Ahab's) hand;" or, "The Lord will deliver (Israel) into the king's (of Syria) hand." So in the famous reply of the Delphian oracle to Pyrrhus: {Aio te ’acida, Romanos vincere posse: Ibis redibis nunquam in bello peribis;} "I say to thee, Pyrrhus the Romans shall overcome: thou shalt go, thou shalt return never in war shalt thou perish."
prophet <05030> [Is there not.]
one man <0376 0259> [yet one man.]
despise ....... prophesy <08130 05012> [but I hate him.]
prosperity <02896> [good.]
disaster <07451> [concerning me.]
king ........................................... king <04428> [Let not the.]
official <05631> [officer. or, eunuch.]
Quickly <04116> [Hasten.]
dressed <03847> [having put.]
threshing floor <01637> [void place. Heb. floor. all the prophets.]
iron horns <01270 07161> [horns of iron.]
said ....... says <0559> [Thus saith.]
Attack <05927> [Go up.]
words ... agree ....... success <01697> [Behold now.]
Lord ........ Lord <03068> [what the Lord.]
<03212> [shall we go.]
succeed <06743 03212> [Go and prosper.]
This was strong irony; they were the precise words of the false prophets; but were spoken by Micaiah in such a tone and manner as at once shewed Ahab that he did not believe, but ridiculed these words of uncertainty. The reply of the Delphian oracle to Crosesus was as ambiguous as that returned to Pyrrhus, {Croesus Halym penetrans magnam pervertet opum vim,} "If Croesus crosses the Halys, he will overthrow a great empire." This he understood of the empire of Cyrus; the event proved it to be his own: he was deluded, yet the oracle maintained its credit.
solemnly <07650> [shall I adjure.]
tell <01696> [that thou tell.]
saw <07200> [I saw.]
sheep <06629> [as sheep.]
said ...... tell <0559> [Did I not tell.]
hear ... word <08085 01697> [Hear thou.]
Lord ... saw ... Lord <07200 03068> [I saw the Lord.]
Micaiah evidently gives here an account of what appeared to him in a vision: many of the circumstances must be considered as parabolical; for truth, rather than facts, is revealed in such representations.
assembly <06635> [all the host.]
deceive <06601> [persuade. or, deceive.]
lying spirit <07307 08267> [a lying spirit.]
Deceive <06601> [Thou shalt.]
Lord .................. Lord <03068> [behold, the Lord.]
Lord .................. Lord <03068> [and the Lord.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
hit Micaiah <04321 05221> [smote Micaiah.]
Which <0335> [Which way.]
see <07200> [Behold.]
inner room <02315> [into an inner chamber. or, from chamber to chamber. Heb. a chamber in a chamber.]
return <07725> [carry him back.]
Put ..... prison <07760 01004> [Put this fellow.]
bread <03906 03899> [bread of affliction.]
safely return <0935 07965> [until I come in peace.]
really .... return <07725> [If thou return.]
note <08085> [Hearken.]
disguise .................... disguised <02664> [I will, etc. or, when he was to disguise himself, and enter into the battle. put thou on.]
disguise ..... enter ................ disguised ..... entered <02664 0935> [disguised himself.]
thirty-two <08147 07970> [thirty and two.]
fight <03898> [Fight.]
common .... high-ranking <01419 06996> [small nor great.]
turned <05493> [they turned.]
Jehoshaphat .................. Jehoshaphat <03092> [Jehoshaphat.]
turned <07725> [that they turned.]
random <08537> [at a venture. Heb. in his simplicity.]
struck <05221> [and smote.]
plates .... armor <08302 01694> [joints of the harness. Heb. joints and the breast-plate.]
wounded <02470> [wounded. Heb. made sick.]
raged <05927> [increased. Heb. ascended. died at even.]
bottom <02436> [midst. Heb. bosom.]
setting <05674> [there went.]
Each one <0376> [Every man.]
taken <0935> [was brought. Heb. came.]
dogs <03611> [and the dogs.]
rest <03499> [A.M. 3086-3107. B.C. 918-897. the rest.]
palace <01004 08127> [the ivory house.]
That is, probably, decorated with ivory in such abundance as to merit the appellation of an ivory house.
passed away <07901> [slept.]
Ahaziah <0274> [Ahaziah.]
Jehoshaphat <03092> [A.M. 3090. B.C. 914. Jehoshaphat.]
king <04427> [began to reign.]
"Began to reign alone. ver. 51."
thirty-five ............ twenty-five <02568 07970> [thirty and five.]
mother <0517> [And his mother's.]
<03212> [he walked.]
careful .............. eliminated <05493> [he turned.]
do what <06213> [doing.]
high places ................ high places <01116> [the high.]
peace <07999> [made peace.]
rest <03499> [Now.]
recorded <03789> [are they.]
<03499> [the remnant.]
king ......... ruled <04428> [no king.]
Jehoshaphat <03092> [Jehoshaphat.]
ships ................. shipwrecked <06213 0591> [made ships. or, had ten ships.]
large merchant ships <08659> [Tharshish.]
Josephus and the Chaldee and Arabic paraphrasts explain this place of Tarsus in Cilicia; the LXX., Theodoret, and Jerome, understand it of Carthage; but the learned Bochart makes it Tartessus, an island in the straits of Gades. Ibn Haukal describes Tarsousa as belonging to Andalus, or Andalusia; and Festus Avienus expressly says, {Hic Gadir urbs est dicta Tartessus prius,} "the city Cadiz was formerly called Tartessus."
Ophir <0211> [to Ophir.]
ships ... travel ......... made ... voyage ..... shipwrecked <01980 0591> [they went not.]
Ezion Geber <06100> [Ezion-geber.]
passed away ....... ancestors ....... ancestor <07901 01> [A.M. 3115. B.C. 889. slept with his fathers.]
city <05892> [in the city.]
Jehoram <03088> [Jehoram.]
king ....... ruled <04427> [A.M. 3107-3108. B.C. 897-896. began.]
"Now he begins to reign alone. ver. 40."
year ..................... years <08141> [two years.]
did evil <07451 06213> [he did evil.]
footsteps ....... like <01870> [in the way.]
footsteps ....... like <01870> [and in the way.]
worshiped ...... Baal <01168 05647> [he served Baal.]
angering <03707> [provoked.]
father <01> [according to all.]
