2 Chronicles 18:1--19:3
wealthy <06239> [A.M. 3107. B.C. 897. riches.]
alliance <02859> [joined affinity.]
He took Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab, to be wife to his son Joram, (2 Ki 8:18;) which fatal connection was highly displeasing to God, and Jehoshaphat was severely reproved for it by Jehu the seer, 2 Ch 19:1-3.
after ... years <08141 07093> [after certain years. Heb. at the end of years.]
went down <03381> [he went.]
Ahab .... Ahab <0256> [Ahab.]
persuaded <05496> [persuaded.]
Ramoth <07433> [Ramoth-gilead.]
army <05971> [I am as thou.]
seek <01875> [Enquire.]
prophets <05030> [prophets.]
<03212> [Shall we go.]
Attack <05927> [Go up.]
prophet <05030> [Is there not.]
ask <01875> [besides. Heb. yet, or more.]
one man <0376 0259> [one man.]
despise ....... prophesy <08130 05012> [I hate him.]
prosperity <02896> [good.]
always <03117> [me.]
king ............................................ king <04428> [Let not the.]
officer <05631> [officers. or, eunuchs.]
Quickly <04116> [Fetch quickly. Heb. hasten.]
sitting on ... respective <03427 0376> [sat either.]
dressed in <03847> [clothed.]
threshing floor <01637> [void place. or, floor.]
Threshing-floors, among the ancient Jews, as we have before remarked, were only, as they are to this day in the East, round level plats of ground in the open air. Hence a floor might well be near the gate of Samaria, which was built on a hill, and afford no improper place for the kings of Judah and Israel to give audience to the prophets.
prophets <05030> [all the prophets.]
iron horns <01270 07161> [horns of iron.]
Mr. Bruce, in describing the head-dress of the governors of Abyssinia, says, "A large broad fillet was bound upon their forehead, and tied behind their head: in the middle of this was a horn, or conical piece of silver, gilt, about four inches long, much in the shape of our common candle extinguishers. This is called {kirn,} {[keren,]} and is only worn in reviews, or parades after victory." Such, it may be supposed, were the horns of iron which Zedekiah (who appears to have acted the hero returning from a military triumph) made for himself, when he presumed, in the name of Jehovah, to flatter his prince with the promise of victory: "Thus saith the Lord, With these thou shalt push Syria, until they be consumed."
said ....... says <0559> [Thus.]
destroyed <03615> [they be consumed. Heb. thou consume them.]
prophets <05030> [all the prophets.]
words ......... success <01697> [Behold.]
<06310> [assent. Heb. mouth.]
God <0430> [even what my God.]
Attack <05927> [Go ye up.]
solemnly <07650> [shall I adjure.]
replied ................... said <0559> [he said.]
sheep <06629> [as sheep.]
master <0113> [master.]
said ...... tell <0559> [Did I not tell.]
disaster <07451> [but evil. or, but for evil.]
hear ... word <01697 08085> [hear the word.]
saw <07200> [I saw.]
assembly <06635> [all the host.]
deceive <06601> [Who shall entice.]
so .... attack ...... there <05927> [go up.]
Then .... stepped <03318> [there came.]
lying spirit <07307 08267> [a lying spirit.]
[See on]
Deceive <06601 03201> [Thou shalt.]
Lord ... placed ................ Lord ... decreed <03068 05414 01696> [the lord hath.]
Lord .................. Lord <03068> [and the Lord.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
Which way <0335 01870> [Which way.]
see <07200> [Behold.]
inner room <02315> [into an inner chamber. or, from chamber to chamber. Heb. into a chamber in a chamber.]
"In one of the halls of the {seraglio} at Constantinople," says De La Motraye, "the eunuch made us pass by several little chambers, with doors shut, like the cells of monks or nuns, as far as I could judge by one that another eunuch opened." This exactly corresponds with the idea of a "chamber within a chamber;" and it would appear that Micaiah predicted that Zedekiah should fly for shelter to a Harem, which we have seen was deemed inviolate. (See on 1 Sa 19:16.)
return <07725> [and carry him back.]
Put <07760> [Put.]
prison <01004> [this fellow.]
bread <03906 03899> [bread of affliction.]
return <07725> [until I return.]
really ... return ... then <07725> [If.]
note <08085> [Hearken.]
king ..... King <04428> [the king.]
disguise ................... disguised <02664> [I will disguise.]
wear .... attire <0899 03847> [put thou on thy robes.]
king ........................ king <04428> [the king.]
fight ...... ranking <03898 06996> [Fight ye.]
ranking <01419 06996> [small or great.]
Jehoshaphat .................. Jehoshaphat <03092> [Jehoshaphat.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
God lured <05496 0430> [God moved them.]
away ... him <0310> [from pursuing him. Heb. from after him.]
shot <04900> [a certain man.]
random <08537> [at a venture. Heb. in his simplicity.]
plates <01694> [between the, etc. Heb. between the joints and between the breast plate.]
The {shiryon,} in Syriac, {sheryono,} seems to have covered both the back and breast of the warrior, and was consequently not properly a breast-plate, but a coat of mail or corslet. The corslet was made of flax or of wool woven very thick, of ox-hide, of brass, or of iron. The metallic corslet consisted not of solid piece, but of scales, hooks, or rings, connected like the links of a chain, that the warrior might move with greater ease. It was between the joints of this harness that Ahab received his mortal wound.
wounded <02470> [wounded. Heb. made sick.]
died <04191> [he died.]
safely <07965> [A.M. 3108. B.C. 896. in peace.]
Jehu <03058> [And Jehu.]
Hanani <02607> [Hanani.]
prophet <02374> [the seer.]
help <05826> [Shouldest.]
oppose ... Lord ........ Lord <03068 08130> [hate the Lord.]
angry <07110> [is wrath.]
good <01697 02896> [good things.]
determined <03559> [prepared.]
