1 Kings 22
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And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

the prophets together

1 Kings 18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, …

2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; …

Go up

1 Kings 22:15,22,23 So he came to the king. And the king said to him, Micaiah, shall …

2 Chronicles 18:14 And when he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, …

Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their …

Jeremiah 8:10,11 Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to …

Jeremiah 14:13,14 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say to them, You …

Jeremiah 23:14-17 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: …

Jeremiah 28:1-9 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign …

Ezekiel 13:7-16,22 Have you not seen a vain vision, and have you not spoken a lying …

Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, …

2 Peter 2:1-3 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there …

Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that worked …

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: `I shalt say to thee, Pyrrhus the Romans shall overcome: thou shalt go, thou shalt return never in war shalt thou perish.'

And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

yet one man

1 Kings 18:4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that …

1 Kings 19:10,14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: …

1 Kings 20:41,42 And he hurried, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king …

but I hate him

1 Kings 22:27 And say, Thus said the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed …

1 Kings 20:43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and …

1 Kings 21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, …

Genesis 37:8 And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? or …

2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and …

Psalm 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Proverbs 9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he …

Proverbs 15:12 A scorner loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go to the wise.

Isaiah 49:7 Thus said the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to …

Jeremiah 18:18 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; …

Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say …

Jeremiah 43:3,4 But Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, for to deliver …

Amos 5:10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks …

Zechariah 11:8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed …

Matthew 10:22 And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that …

John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, …

John 3:20-22 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the …

John 7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of …

John 15:18,19 If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you…

John 17:14 I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because …

Galatians 4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Revelation 11:7-10 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that …

good

1 Kings 22:13 And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, …

Isaiah 30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not …

Jeremiah 38:4 Therefore the princes said to the king, We beseech you, let this …

Micah 2:11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will …

concerning me

1 Kings 20:35-42 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbor …

2 Kings 9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, …

Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his …

Isaiah 57:19-21 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, …

Let not the

1 Kings 21:27-29 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his …

Proverbs 5:12-14 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof…

Micah 2:7 O you that are named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD …

Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the king's hand.
And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.
And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.
So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

shall we go

1 Kings 22:6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four …

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 Dephian oracle to Crosesus was as ambiguous as they returned to Pyrrhus, `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.

1 Kings 18:27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry …

Judges 10:14 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you …

2 Kings 3:13 And Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? …

2 Chronicles 18:14 And when he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, …

Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you …

Matthew 26:45 Then comes he to his disciples, and said to them, Sleep on now, and …

And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?
And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

Hear thou

Isaiah 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law …

Isaiah 28:14 Why hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people …

Jeremiah 2:4 Hear you the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families …

Jeremiah 29:20 Hear you therefore the word of the LORD, all you of the captivity, …

Jeremiah 42:15 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, you remnant of Judah; …

Ezekiel 13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, …

Amos 7:16 Now therefore hear you the word of the LORD: You say, Prophesy not …

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.

2 Chronicles 18:18-22 Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD …

Isaiah 6:1-3 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting on …

Ezekiel 1:26-28 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness …

Daniel 7:9,10 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days …

Acts 7:55,56 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into …

Revelation 4:2,3 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set …

all the host

Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves …

Job 2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves …

Psalm 103:20,21 Bless the LORD, you his angels, that excel in strength, that do his …

Isaiah 6:2,3 Above it stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with two he …

Zechariah 1:10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said…

Matthew 18:10 Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you…

Matthew 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels …

Hebrews 1:7 And of the angels he said, Who makes his angels spirits, and his …

Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for …

Hebrews 12:22 But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, …

Revelation 5:11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the …

And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

Put this fellow

2 Chronicles 16:10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; …

2 Chronicles 18:25-27 Then the king of Israel said, Take you Micaiah, and carry him back …

Jeremiah 20:2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks …

Jeremiah 29:26 The LORD has made you priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, …

Jeremiah 37:15 Why the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put …

Jeremiah 38:6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah …

Lamentations 3:53-55 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone on me…

Mark 6:17-28 For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold on John, and bound …

Luke 3:20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

Acts 5:18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.

Acts 16:23,24 And when they had laid many stripes on them, they cast them into …

Acts 24:25-27 And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to …

Acts 26:10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I …

Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which you shall suffer: behold, the devil …

bread of affliction

Deuteronomy 16:3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat …

Psalm 80:5 You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink …

Psalm 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

Psalm 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread …

Isaiah 30:20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water …

until I come in peace

Luke 12:45,46 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delays his coming; …

1 Thessalonians 5:2,3 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as …

James 4:13,14 Go to now, you that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such …

And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.
So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

was brought [heb] came

And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

he walked

1 Kings 15:11,14 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did …

2 Chronicles 14:2-5,11 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God…

2 Chronicles 15:8,17 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, …

2 Chronicles 17:3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first …

he turned

1 Kings 15:5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD…

Exodus 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: …

1 Samuel 12:20,21 And Samuel said to the people, Fear not: you have done all this wickedness: …

2 Chronicles 16:7-12 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said …

Psalm 40:4 Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not …

Psalm 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them …

Psalm 125:5 As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead …

Proverbs 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.

doing

2 Chronicles 17:3-6 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first …

2 Chronicles 19:3,4 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have …

2 Chronicles 20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed …

the high

1 Kings 14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on …

1 Kings 15:14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was …

2 Kings 12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed …

2 Kings 14:3,4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not …

2 Kings 15:3,4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according …

2 Kings 18:22 But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, …

And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.

Jehoshaphat

2 Chronicles 20:35,36 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah …

made ships. or, had ten ships

1 Kings 10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: …

2 Chronicles 9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: …

Psalm 48:7 You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

Isaiah 2:16 And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all pleasant pictures.

Isaiah 60:9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, …

Jonah 1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, …

Tharshish Josephus and the Chaldee and Arabic praphrasts explain this place of Tarsus in Cilcia; 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 Analusial and Festus Avienus expressly says, [Hic gadir urbs est dicta Tartessus prius,] `the city Cadiz was formerly called Tartessus.'

to Ophir

1 Kings 9:28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred …

Psalm 45:9 Kings' daughters were among your honorable women: on your right hand …

they went not

2 Chronicles 20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, …

2 Chronicles 25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army …

Ezion-geber

1 Kings 9:26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside …

Numbers 33:35,36 And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Eziongaber…

Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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