Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Kings 22:15

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 scorn of them and him. But his message is couched in metaphor and symbolic vision, unlike the stern directness of the style of Elijah.

Continues after advertising

See also 1 Kings 22:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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 *...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּבֹוא֮ אֶל ־הַ מֶּלֶךְ֒ וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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]...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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 t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE SYRIANS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 22:15 came H935 (H8799) king H4428 king H4428 said H559 (H8799) Micaiah H4321 go H3212 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE EXPEDITION OF AHAB AND JEHOSHAPHAT AGAINST HRAMOTH-GILEAD. THE DEATH OF AHAB. THE REIGNS OF JEHOSHAPHAT AND AHAZIAH....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 18:27; 1 Kings 22:6; 2 Chronicles 18:14; 2 Kings 3:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

Continues after advertising