1 Kings 22:11

Zedekiah In 1 Kings 22:24 we see that Zedekiah was the leader of Ahab's prophets. His action here is one of those symbolical proceedings not uncommon with the prophets. Thus Ahijah significantly rent his garment into twelve pieces (1 Kings 11:30) and gave Jeroboam ten. Zedekiah's language, addressed to Ahab, is probably an allusion to the blessing of Ephraim in Deuteronomy 33:17. By this time Ephraim had become the representative tribe of the Northern Kingdom, and of him Moses had said -his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth." By such language not only Ahab, but Jehoshaphat might be encouraged to trust more to the prophecies of success.

untilthou have consumed them R.V. until they be consumed. There is nothing in the original to warrant -thou."