1 Kings 22:6

gathered the prophets together, about four hundred These cannot have been the prophets of Baal, for their ringleader, Zedekiah, in 1 Kings 22:11, begins his speech, -Thus saith Jehovah," and in 1 Kings 22:24 speaks of -the spirit of Jehovah" as being with him. But they were not true adherents of the Lord, otherwise Jehoshaphat would certainly have been content with their words. He went on with the project of the expedition even after Micaiah's prophetic warning; he never would have sought for more satisfaction, had he heard four hundred true prophets of Jehovah say, -the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king." These men were therefore the prophets who served in the worship of the calves. They would use Jehovah's name, just as constantly as the men who had not forsaken His commandment, and throughout the whole of Israel this number of them could no doubt be readily gathered, and these, though not his Baal-priests, Ahab would bring before Jehoshaphat.

Go up The land of Gilead was all mountainous.

the Lord shall deliverit] It is remarkable that in this first form of answer, the word for "Lord" is Adonai, not the word which we represent by Jehovah, and which is generally rendered Lord. In the repetition, in 1 Kings 22:12, Jehovahis used, and of course in Micaiah's speech. This word -Adonai" is what the Jews use now instead of pronouncing the sacred name, but their reason could not have weighed with Ahab's priests in Israel. In the parallel place in Chronicles -God", Elohim, is used in the first answer, and -Jehovah" in the others.