1 Kings 14:25
Shishak <07895> [A.M. 3034. B.C. 970. Shishak.]
1 Kings 18:41
up <05927> [Get.]
sound <06963> [a sound, etc. or, a sound of a noise of rain. See on ver.]
1 Kings 18:44
small cloud <06996 05645> [a little cloud.]
{Kekaph ish,} "like the hollow of a man's hand;" in the form of a hand bent, the concave side downmost. Mr. Bruce mentions a similar cloud in Abyssinia, as attending the inundation of the Nile. "Every morning, about nine, a small cloud, not above four feet broad, appears in the east, whirling violently round, as if upon an axis; but arrived near the zenith, it first abates its motion, then loses its form, and extends itself greatly, and seems to call up vapours from all opposite quarters. These clouds having attained nearly the same height, rush against each other with great violence, and put me always in mind of Elijah foretelling rain on Mount Carmel."
Hitch up <0631> [Prepare. Heb. Tie, or Bind.]
1 Kings 18:42-43
Elijah <0452> [Elijah.]
bent <01457> [he cast himself.]
put ... face <06440 07760> [put his face.]
up .............. up <05927> [Go up.]
<07725> [Go again.]
1 Kings 22:12
Attack <05927> [Go up.]
1 Kings 9:16
daughter <01323> [daughter.]
1 Kings 20:22
prophet <05030> [the prophet.]
fortify <02388> [strengthen.]
spring <08666> [at the return.]
1 Kings 22:6
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."
1 Kings 22:15
<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.
