Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 22:3
3-8. Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours—a Levitical and free town on the north border of Gad (Deuteronomy 4:43; Joshua 21:38), on the site of the present Salt Lake, in the province of Belka. It lay within the territories of the Israelitish monarch, and was unjustly alienated; but whether it was one of the cities usurped by the first Ben-hadad, which his son had promised to restore, or was retained for some other reasons, the sacred historian has not mentioned. In the expedition which Ahab... read more
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 22:2
2. Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel—It was singular that a friendly league between the sovereigns of Israel and Judah should, for the first time, have been formed by princes of such opposite characters—the one pious, the other wicked. Neither this league nor the matrimonial alliance by which the union of the royal families was more closely cemented, met the Lord's approval ( :-). It led, however, to a visit by Jehoshaphat, whose reception in Samaria was... read more