1 Kings 22:26-40

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 22:15-28

Here Micaiah does well, but, as is common, suffers ill for so doing. I. We are told how faithfully he delivered his message, as one that was more solicitous to please God than to humour either the great or the many. In three ways he delivers his message, and all displeasing to Ahab:? 1. He spoke as the rest of the prophets had spoken, but ironically: Go, and prosper, 1 Kgs. 22:15. Ahab put the same question to him that he had put to his own prophets (Shall we go, or shall we forbear?) seeming... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 22:29-40

The matter in contest between God's prophet and Ahab's prophets is here soon determined, and it is made to appear which was in the right. Here, I. The two kings march with their forces to Ramoth-Gilead, 1 Kgs. 22:29. That the king of Israel, who hated God's prophet, should so far disbelieve his admonition as to persist in his resolution, notwithstanding, is not strange; but that Jehoshaphat, that pious prince, who had desired to enquire by a prophet of the Lord, as disrelishing and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 22:26

And the king of Israel said ,.... To some of his officers: take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city : the chief magistrate under the king; a sort of sheriff, who had the care of malefactors, and of all committed to prison, from whom he was received by the messenger, and now sent back to him: and to Joash the king's son ; who might be over his household, as sometimes the king's son was, 2 Chronicles 26:21 or might be viceroy while the king was without the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 22:27

And say, thus saith the king, put this fellow in prison ,.... In the common prison of the city, where he had been before, as it seems; and might be now ordered into a more confined place in it, and what might be called "little ease": and feed him with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction ; with bad bread and foul water, and but little of either; just enough to keep alive, and to continue starving: until I come in peace ; which he seemed confident of, and intimates that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 22:28

And Micaiah said, if thou return at all in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me ,.... I am content to be reckoned a false prophet, and to be punished as such: and, he said, hearken, O people, everyone of you ; he called aloud unto them to observe what he had predicted, and mark the issue of it, and to bear testimony for him, or against him, as things should be. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 22:29

So the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, went up to Ramothgilead. Which, according to Bunting F18 Travels, &c.; p. 178. , was twenty four miles from Samaria. That Ahab went is no wonder, it was his own motion first, his inclination led to it, his prophets encouraged him, and, in bravado to the prophet of the Lord, was determined upon it; but it may seem much more strange that Jehoshaphat should, after such an account as Micaiah had given, and who, doubtless, could... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 22:30

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle ,.... Change his clothes, his royal robes, and put on others, perhaps the habit of a common soldier; having, it may be, been informed by some deserters or spies, of the design of Benhadad against him. Abarbinel thinks the meaning is, that he would clothe himself with a coat of mail, and take to him the each of the instruments of war, and so go into the battle secure; this seems probable from 1... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 22:31

But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had the rule over his chariots ,.... This was the number of his kings in the first battle with Israel, and of his captains in the second, 1 Kings 20:1 , and the same number he had now, being very probably not only the number of his chariots, but the division of his army was into so many battalions, under the command of these captains of chariots: saying, fight neither with small nor great ; of those that belonged to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 22:32

And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat ,.... In his royal robes: that they said, surely it is the king of Israel ; for they might not know the persons either of Ahab or him, but judged by his habit: and they turned aside to fight against him ; pressed upon him with all their force, either to take him or slay him: and Jehoshaphat cried out ; with a loud voice, either to the captains to let them know who he was, or to his men to come to his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 22:33

And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel ,.... Against whom only their orders were to fight: that they turned back from pursuing him ; for upon so great a force coming upon him he could not withstand, he fled. read more

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