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Verse 1 Kings 22:15. _GO, AND PROSPER_] This was a strong _irony_; as
if he had said, All your prophets have predicted success; you wish me
to speak as they speak: _Go, and prosper; for the Lord will...
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AND HE ANSWERED HIM ... - Micaiah speaks the exact words of the 400 in
so mocking and ironical a tone, that the king cannot mistake his
meaning, or regard his answer as serious. The king’s rejoinder
i...
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CHAPTER 22 THE DEATH OF AHAB
_ 1. Jehoshaphat and Ahab (1 Kings 22:1)_
2. The prophet Micaiah (1 Kings 22:13)
3. The battle and Ahab's death (1 Kings 22:29)
4. Jehoshaphat of Judah ...
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AHAB'S ATTACK ON RAMOTH-GILEAD AND HIS DEATH. The death of Ahab must
have taken place before or during the year 854 B.C., when the battle
of Qarqara was fought, and his name is mentioned in the Assyri...
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GO, AND PROSPER. Figure of speech _Eironeia._ App-6. Doubtless
repeating the words he had heard in verses: 1 Kings 22:6; 1 Kings
22:13....
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_So he came to the king. And the king said_ R.V. AND WHEN HE WAS COME
TO THE KING, THE KING SAID. Conforming to 2 Chron. where the Hebrew is
precisely the same. The change also represents the events i...
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GO, AND PROSPER: FOR THE LORD SHALL DELIVER, &C.— Supposing Micaiah
had spoken in earnest, his answer does not at all contradict the other
prophets: but the words, it is most likely, were spoken ironi...
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B. THE PROPHECY OF MICAIAH 22:13-28
TRANSLATION
(13) Now the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah had said unto
him, saying, Behold now the words of the prophets are unanimously good
toward the k...
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_SO HE CAME TO THE KING. AND THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, MICAIAH, SHALL WE
GO AGAINST RAMOTH-GILEAD TO BATTLE, OR SHALL WE FORBEAR? AND HE
ANSWERED HIM, GO, AND PROSPER: FOR THE LORD SHALL DELIVER IT INTO...
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AHAB AND MICAIAH. AHAB'S DEATH AT RAMOTH-GLLEAD. REIGN OF JEHOSHAPHAT,
KING OF JUDAH
1. Three years] probably calculated from the peace described in 1
Kings 20:34....
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GO, AND PROSPER] Micaiah, as the king saw, was not speaking seriously,
but repeated in mockery the words of the 400 prophets (1 Kings 22:6),
which had doubtless been reported to him (1 Kings 22:13)....
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GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 22
THE *PROPHET MICAIAH
V1 There was peace between Syria and *Israel for almost three years.
V2 In the third year Jehoshaphat, king of *...
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GO, AND PROSPER. — Micaiah is a true disciple of Elijah in the
defiant irony of the tone in which he takes up and mocks the utterance
of the false prophets so bitterly as at once to show Ahab his scor...
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וַ יָּבֹוא֮ אֶל ־הַ מֶּלֶךְ֒ וַ
יֹּ֨אמֶר
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ALONE AGAINST THE WORLD
1 Kings 22:1
"I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to
them, yet they prophesied I have heard what the prophets said, who
prophesied lies in My name...
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WHAT JEHOVAH SAITH… THAT WILL I SPEAK
1 Kings 22:13
Ramoth was one of the cities of refuge, situated across the Jordan.
The false prophets spake as they knew would please the king and gain
the popula...
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The final movement in the downfall of Ahab is here chronicled.
Jehoshaphat visited Ahab, who suggested the alliance against the king
of Syria. Jehoshaphat suggested an appeal to Jehovah. Ahab produced...
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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, (n) Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it]...
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Go up, &c. This was spoken ironically, and by way of jesting at the
flattering speeches of the false prophets: and so the king understood
it, as appears by his adjuring Micheas, in the following verse...
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(9) Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither
Micaiah the son of Imlah. (10) And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat
the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on the...
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The days were very dark in Israel. Not only rebellion. And rebellion,
always serious, was peculiarly so in Israel, for there it was
insubordination in a direct manner against not only God's providence...
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The last chapter presents another element of this history, namely, the
guilty alliances which were formed between the royal families of
Israel and Judah. Both of them prosperous at this period, they s...
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SO HE CAME TO THE KING,.... Being introduced by the officer:
AND THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, MICAIAH, SHALL WE GO UP AGAINST
RAMOTHGILEAD TO BATTLE, OR SHALL WE FORBEAR? the same question in the
same wor...
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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...
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_He answered him, Go, and prosper_ He gave the very same answer, and
in the same words, which the other prophets had done; but spake them
in such a manner, that Ahab plainly discerned he derided and m...
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1 Ahab seduced by false prophets, according to the word of Micaiah, is
slaine at Ramoth Gilead.
37 The dogges licke vp his blood, and Ahaziah succeedeth him.
41 Iehoshaphats good reigne,
45 his act...
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AHAB WARNED BUT DETERMINED
(vs.1-28)
Three years later the show of repentance on Ahab's part had worn off.
There had been no war between Israel and Syria, but rather than
leaving matters as they were...
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15-28 The greatest kindness we can do to one that is going in a
dangerous way, is, to tell him of his danger. To leave the hardened
criminal without excuse, and to give a useful lesson to others,
Mic...
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HE ANSWERED HIM; not seriously, but ironically, using the very words
of the false prophets, in way of derision; as appears, first, From his
omission of that solemn preface, THUS SAITH THE LORD, or, _T...
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1 Kings 22:15 came H935 (H8799) king H4428 king H4428 said H559
(H8799) Micaiah H4321 go H3212 ...
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AHAB AND JEHOSHAPHAT UNITE TO REGAIN RAMOTH-GILEAD FOR ISRAEL AND AHAB
LEARNS FROM A PROPHET OF YHWH THAT THEY WILL BE SUCCESSFUL BUT THAT HE
WILL DIE IN THE ATTEMPT (1 KINGS 22:1).
Ahab's life has be...
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THE FINAL FATE OF AHAB IS SEALED (1 KINGS 22:1).
As we have seen, prophets have featured all through Ahab's reign, and
here they feature to the end. Ahab could never argue that he had not
been given...
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CONTENTS: Alliance of Ahab and Jehosophat. Ahab's ultimate defeat.
CHARACTERS: God, Jehoshaphat, Ahab, Micaiah, Zedekiah, Syrian king,
false prophets, Ahaziah.
CONCLUSION: He who joins himself in af...
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1 Kings 22:2. _Jehoshaphat_ had married his son Jehoram to Athaliah,
daughter of Jezebel; probably from the idea that the connection would
prevent internal war for the future: oh fatal mistake!
1 King...
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_Jehoshaphat the King of Judah._
CHARACTER OF JEHOSHAPHAT
In Ahab we have an instance of a wicked man partially reclaimed,
frequently arrested, but yet finally hardened in his iniquity. In
Jehoshapha...
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 22:1 Although the house of Ahab is under a
prophetic curse, the complete fulfillment of the prophecy will be
delayed until the reign of Ahab’s son (see 1 Kings 21:27). Howev
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 22:15 GO UP AND TRIUMPH. Ahab sees that
Micaiah’s words are merely a mocking imitation of the court
prophets, who tell him only what he wants to hear....
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THE DEATH OF AHAB
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 22:2. JEHOSHAPHAT THE KING OF JUDAH CAME DOWN TO THE KING OF
ISRAEL—This visit is accounted for in Chronicles (chap. 1 Kings
18:1): Jehoshap...
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EXPOSITION
THE EXPEDITION OF AHAB AND JEHOSHAPHAT AGAINST HRAMOTH-GILEAD. THE
DEATH OF AHAB. THE REIGNS OF JEHOSHAPHAT AND AHAZIAH....
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So they went for three years without war between Syria and Israel. And
it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat who was the king
of the southern tribes Judah, he came up to visit Ahab. And...
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1 Kings 18:27; 1 Kings 22:6; 2 Chronicles 18:14; 2 Kings 3:13;...
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Go — Using the very words of the false prophets, in way of derision.
Micaiah's meaning is plainly this, because thou dost not seek to know
the truth, but only to please thyself, go to the battle, as a...