1 Kings 22:16-53
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.]
