NOW. &C. This chapter is complementary to 1 Kings 22. RICHES AND HONOUR IN ABUNDANCE. This is repeated from 2 Chronicles 17:5, to show that there was no need for any alliance of any kind. JOINED AFFINITY. By marrying his son Jehoram to Athaliah the daughter of Ahab (2 Chronicles 21:6; 2 Kings 8:18)... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6), emphasizing the consequent details. AFTER CERTAIN YEARS. The third year of the peace between Ahab and Syria (1 Kings 22:1; 1 Kings 22:2). AND AHAB KILLED, &C. Ahab's "sheep and oxen" did what all his men of war could never have done (2 Chronic... [ Continue Reading ]
WE WILL BE WITH THEE. Jehoshaphat was deceived by its seeming to be. "good work". But "good" works are only "prepared" works (Ephesians 2:10). It could not be "good" if done "with thee" (Compare 2 Chronicles 19:2). "Better is he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh. city" (Proverbs 16:32). But... [ Continue Reading ]
ENQUIRE, &C. This shows his consciousness that he was not doing right. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
PROPHETS: i.e. the false prophets of Baal. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. They knew not experimental relationship with Jehovah.... [ Continue Reading ]
BESIDES. He thus shows that he knew they were false prophets.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HATE HIM. I have always hated him. True prophets are always hated by the Lord's enemies. EVIL Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. MICAIAH. Who is like Jehovah?... [ Continue Reading ]
PROPHESIED BEFORE THEM. Jehoshaphat well knowing that they were not the prophets of Jehovah.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY. Note the characteristic ambiguity of such communications.... [ Continue Reading ]
ASSENT. mouth. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause) for what is spoken by it.... [ Continue Reading ]
WE... I... YE. Note the change in number.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9.... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "all these".... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT SEE. art going to see; or, art about to see; or, thou wilt soon see.... [ Continue Reading ]
PUT THIS FELLOW. One of the eleven rulers offended with God's servants. See note on Exodus 10:28, and App-10. BREAD OF AFFLICTION. Genitive of relation. Bread accompanied by, or eaten in, affliction; also because of its quality, or scant allowance.... [ Continue Reading ]
PEOPLE. Peoples. THEY WENT. they entered. But some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulg, read "he entered". Compare 1 Kings 22:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
CARRY HIM BACK. Implying that Micaiah was already. prisoner.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, &C. Having been taken into the camp of Israel and allowed to hear what Ahab said, we are now taken into the camp of Syria to overhear what the king of Syria said. This is to enable us to understand what follows.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. HELPED HIM: i.e. Jehoshaphat, for Jehovah was his Covenant God. GOD MOVED THEM. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. He stood, to the Syrians, only in the relation of the Creator to His creatures.... [ Continue Reading ]
AT. VENTURE. in his innocence, or ignorance. OF THE HARNESS. of the armour. THAT THOU MAYEST. and. WOUNDED. sore wounded.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE DIED. Not fell asleep! No details of his death, here, in Chronicles, which is concerned only with Judah. Details given in Kings (1 Kings 22:35).... [ Continue Reading ]