2 Chronicles 18:1-15
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.]
