Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Kings 22:2
And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah (b) came down to the king of Israel.
(b) To see and visit him.
And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah (b) came down to the king of Israel.
(b) To see and visit him.
This visit indicates an entire change in the relations which we have hitherto found subsisting between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The common danger to which the two kingdoms were exposed from t...
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 ...
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...
CAME DOWN. In every sense of the word; and this after 2 Chronicles 17:1. First was the _matrimonial_ alliance (2 Chronicles 18:1), compare 2 Kings 8:18. and then the _military_ alliance ...
_Jehoshaphat … came down to the king of Israel_ The writer speaks as though Jerusalem was still regarded as the capital-city of the whole nation. To leave it and go elsewhere was -to go down." The Ch...
I. FAITHLESS AHAB AND FEARLESS MICAIAH 22:1-40 Against the earnest protestations of a faithful prophet, the foolhardy Ahab organized a military campaign to try and recapture the Transjordan border tow...
_AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE THIRD YEAR, THAT JEHOSHAPHAT THE KING OF JUDAH CAME DOWN TO THE KING OF ISRAEL._ Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. It was singular that a frie...
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....
JEHOSHAPHAT.. CAME DOWN] The earlier hostility between Judah and Israel (see 1 Kings 15:16) had by this time given place not only to peace but to friendship, which had been cemented (as appears from 2...
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 *...
JEHOSHAPHAT THE KING OF JUDAH CAME DOWN. — The fuller account of the Chronicles (2 Chronicles 17) notices that the early part of his reign had been marked by a continuance or increase of the prosperit...
וַ יְהִ֖י בַּ † שָּׁנָ֣ה הַ שְּׁלִישִׁ֑ית...
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...
ENTERING INTO A NEW PARTNERSHIP 1 Kings 22:1 It seems strange that so good a man as the king of Judah should have entered into such an alliance. It began with the marriage of Jehoram, son of Jehoshap...
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...
_Josaphat. It is wonderful that a prince of so great piety, should be on terms of such strict friendship with a most wicked king. God did not approve of it; and the event was unfortunate, 2 Paralipome...
(1) В¶ And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. (2) And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. It is a littl...
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...
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...
AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE THIRD YEAR,.... Of the peace, before it was expired: THAT JEHOSHAPHAT THE KING OF JUDAH CAME DOWN TO THE KING OF ISRAEL; to Ahab, from Jerusalem to Samaria, reckoned thirty...
And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. Ver. 2. _Jehoshaphat came down to the king of Israel._] With whom he warred at first with go...
_The king of Judah came down to the king of Israel_ Having now, as he supposed, made a firm peace with him, by the alliance contracted between Jehoram his son, and Athaliah, Ahab's daughter, 2 Kings 8...
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...
And it came to pass in the third year that Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, came down to the king of Israel; his son having married a daughter of Ahab, he made a formal visit and was entertained most l...
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE SYRIANS...
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...
1-14 The same easiness of temper, which betrays some godly persons into friendship with the declared enemies of religion, renders it very dangerous to them. They will be drawn to wink at and countena...
Having now, as he supposed, made a firm peace with Ahab by the alliance contracted between Jehoram his son, and Athaliah, Ahab's daughter; of which see 2 KINGS 8:18 2 CHRONICLES 18:1....
1 Kings 22:2 third H7992 year H8141 Jehoshaphat H3092 king H4428 Judah H3063 down H3381 (H8799) king H4428 Israel...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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 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...
EXPOSITION THE EXPEDITION OF AHAB AND JEHOSHAPHAT AGAINST HRAMOTH-GILEAD. THE DEATH OF AHAB. THE REIGNS OF JEHOSHAPHAT AND AHAZIAH....
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...
1 Kings 15:24; 1 Kings 22:1; 1 Kings 22:41; 1 Kings 22:44;...
Came down, &c. — It is strange, that so good a man would be so closely connected with a king revolted from the worship of God! But he appears to have been of too easy a temper, which betrayed him to m...