1 Kings 22:1-16
[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.]
