2 Chronicles 18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:9

The contents of this and the following two verses narrate either what had already taken place, or the continuation of the scene that had not come to its end, but had been interrupted in order to carry out fully the urgent exhortation of Jehoshaphat "to-day," so that Ahab sent at once there and then a messenger for Micaiah. Any way, the unreal prophets have their full opportunity and their say at least twice over, as also Micaiah below ( 2 Chronicles 18:14 , 2 Chronicles 18:16 , 2... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:9-27

Micaiah, the son of Imla-an Old Testament hero. I. THE COURAGE HE DISPLAYED . ( 2 Chronicles 18:9-13 .) He delivered Jehovah's message under circumstances that might and probably would have intimidated him had he not been a hero. 1 . Before two kings to whom that message was unacceptable. The scene was calculated to steal away Micaiah's fortitude, could anything have done so. In an open space or threshing-floor, at the entering in of the gate of Samaria, Ahab and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:10

Zedekiah (named son of Chenaanah to distinguish him from some now unknown contemporary, or, perhaps, because the father was in some way distinguished) was one of those who knew the truth, nor feared to put it on his lips at the very time that his life. did not incorporate it ( Deuteronomy 33:17 ). For other particulars of him, borrowed from the doubtfulness of Josephus, Bee Smith's 'Bible Dictionary,' 3:1836. Had made him horns of iron. It would seem as though Zedekiah had made these... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:12

This verse bespeaks very clearly the rotten condition of Church and state, prophets and king and "officers" ( 2 Chronicles 18:8 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:14

This first reply of Micaiah, given in the latter haft of the verse, does not stand for untruth or deceit, but for very thinly veiled, very thinly disguised, very keen taunt and reproof. It has been well described as the ironical echo of the language of the unreal prophets. Micaiah begins by answering a fool according to his folly, i.e. according to his own heart's desire. He had just come from some place of imprisonment or punishment ( 2 Chronicles 18:25 ). And he so spoke or so looked... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:16

The brief parable smote the very heart of Ahab ( Numbers 27:17 ); and Ahab felt it, like "the sentence of death" in him; in a way all different, indeed, from that in which an apostle of many a century afterward felt it. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:17

Ahab's language in this verso shows that, though he had adjured Micaiah, he did not wish to seem to believe that he could speak anything but his own temper. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:19

Who shall entice , etc.? Hebrew piel future פָתָח . This and the following three verses must have told, manifestly did tell, with fearful force of faithful preaching, upon the unreal prophets and the wicked king. How it was that their contents did not avail with Jehoshaphat to throw full energy again into his conscience, and to enable him to break at once with Ahab and his expedition, is inexplicable (and the more as it was his own pressing suggestion that the true prophet should be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:22

The vision culminating as regards its practical object in this verse is Micaiah's bold explanation of how it comes to pass that he has to boar the brunt of Ahab's "hate," on account of the uniformly unfavourable character of his answers to him, instead of four hundred other men sharing it with him. He declares, on the authority of his rapt vision, that it is because they are possessed by a lying spirit ( Romans 1:25 , Romans 1:28 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:12 ). And, like the true prophet of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:23

Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee? This question of Zedekiah, and Micaiah's answer to him in the following verse, arc both obscure and of doubtful interpretation, but their drift not at all so. Keil and Bertheau correctly say,—in that Zedekiah used the force and the language that he did, it is not a bad sign that he was under a spirit's influence, but in that it was physical force which he used in a moral subject, this was a conclusive sign of the character ... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:9

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:10

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:12

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:14

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:16

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:19

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:22

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 18:23

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