1 Kings 18:19
Mount Carmel <03760 02022> [mount Carmel.]
Mount Carmel is situated north of Dora and south of Ptolemais or Acre, from which it is distant, according to Josephus, 120 stadia, or, according to Thevenot, 10 miles; one of its principal points advancing considerably into the Mediterranean, and forming an elevated promontory. It is described as a flattened cone, about 2,000 feet (some say 1,500) in height, very rocky, its sides steep and rugged, and the soil neither deep nor rich. Capt. Mangles says its is now quite barren, though at the north-eastern foot of it there are some pretty olive-grounds.
prophets ... Baal .... prophets <01168 05030> [the prophets of Baal.]
prophets ...... prophets ... Asherah <0842 05030> [prophets of the groves.]
Though {ashairah} certainly denotes in some place a grove, yet it is equally certain, that in others, as here, it must signify an idol; and it is thought by learned men to be the same as Ashtoreth, or Astarte the Syrian Venus.
Jezebel supports <0348 07979 0398> [eat at Jezebel's table.]
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 22:10-11
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.]
1 Kings 22:22-25
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.]
