2Ch 18 | TSK | STEP | Jehoshaphat, joined in affinity with Ahab, is persuaded to go with him against Ramoth-gilead. Ahab, seduced by false prophets, according to the word of Micaiah, is slain there. A.M. 3107. B.C. 897. riches. joined affinity.He took Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab, to be wife to his son Joram, (2 Ki 8:18;) which fatal connection was highly displeasing to God, and Jehoshaphat was severely reproved for it by Jehu the seer, 2 Ch 19:1-3.

2 Chronicles 18

1 Jehoshaphat, joined in affinity with Ahab, is persuaded to go with him against Ramoth-gilead.

4 Ahab, seduced by false prophets, according to the word of Micaiah, is slain there.

A.M. 3107. B.C. 897. riches.

joined affinity.He took Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab, to be wife to his son Joram, (2 Ki 8:18;) which fatal connection was highly displeasing to God, and Jehoshaphat was severely reproved for it by Jehu the seer, 2 Ch 19:1-3.

31; 19:2; 21:6; 22:2,3; 1Ki 16:31-33; 21:25; 2Ki 8:18,26,27; 11:1

2Co 6:14

after certain years. Heb. at the end of years.

1Ki 17:7; Ne 13:6; *margins

he went.

19:2; 1Ki 22:2-28

Ahab.

1Ki 1:9; Isa 22:12,13; Lu 17:27-29

persuaded.

1Ki 22:4,20-22

Ramoth-gilead.

De 4:43; Jos 20:8; 1Ki 4:13; 2Ki 9:1

I am as thou.

1Ki 22:4; 2Ki 3:7; Ps 139:21; Eph 5:11; 2Jo 1:10,11

Enquire.

34:26; 1Sa 23:2; 23:2,4,9-12; 2Sa 2:1; 5:19,23; 1Ki 22:5,6

Ps 27:4; Jer 21:2; Eze 20:3

prophets.

1Ki 18:19; 2Ki 3:13; 2Ti 4:3

Shall we go.

Jer 38:14-28; 42:2,3,20

Go up.

14,20,21; Jer 8:10,11; 23:14,17; 28:1-17; Eze 13:3-16,22; Mic 2:11

Mic 3:11; Re 19:20

Is there not.

1Ki 22:7-9; 2Ki 3:11-13

besides. Heb. yet, or more.

one man.

1Ki 18:4; 19:10

I hate him.

1Ki 18:17; 20:42,43; 21:20; Ps 34:21; 55:3; 69:14; Pr 9:8; 29:10

Jer 18:18; Am 5:10; Mr 6:18,19,27; Lu 6:22; Joh 7:7; 15:18,19,24

Ga 4:16

good.

Isa 30:10; Jer 38:4

me.

13; 2Ki 9:22; Eze 3:17-19; Ac 20:26,27

Let not the.

Pr 25:12; Mic 2:7

officers. or, eunuchs.

1Sa 8:15; 1Ch 28:1; *margins

Isa 39:7; Da 1:3,7,8

Fetch quickly. Heb. hasten.

25,26; 1Ki 22:9

sat either.

1Ki 22:10-12; Isa 14:9; Eze 26:16; Da 7:9; Mt 19:28

clothed.

29; Mt 6:29; 11:8

void place. or, floor.Threshing-floors, among the ancient Jews, as we have before remarked, were only, as they are to this day in the East, round level plats of ground in the open air. Hence a floor might well be near the gate of Samaria, which was built on a hill, and afford no improper place for the kings of Judah and Israel to give audience to the prophets.

all the prophets.

Jer 27:14-16

horns of iron.Mr. Bruce, in describing the head-dress of the governors of Abyssinia, says, "A large broad fillet was bound upon their forehead, and tied behind their head: in the middle of this was a horn, or conical piece of silver, gilt, about four inches long, much in the shape of our common candle extinguishers. This is called {kirn,} {[keren,]} and is only worn in reviews, or parades after victory." Such, it may be supposed, were the horns of iron which Zedekiah (who appears to have acted the hero returning from a military triumph) made for himself, when he presumed, in the name of Jehovah, to flatter his prince with the promise of victory: "Thus saith the Lord, With these thou shalt push Syria, until they be consumed."

Jer 27:2; 28:10-14; Zec 1:18-21; 2Ti 3:8

Thus.

Jer 23:17,21,25,31; 28:2,3; 29:21; Eze 13:7; 22:28

they be consumed. Heb. thou consume them.

all the prophets.

5,12,33,34; Pr 24:24,25; Mic 3:5; 2Pe 2:1-3; Jude 1:16; Re 16:13,14

Re 19:20

Behold.

Job 22:13; Ps 10:11; Isa 30:10; Ho 7:3; Am 7:13; Mic 2:6,11

1Co 2:14-16

assent. Heb. mouth.

Jos 9:2; *marg:

even what my God.

Nu 22:18-20,35; 23:12,26; 24:13; 1Ki 22:14; Jer 23:28; 42:4

Eze 2:7; Mic 2:6,7; Ac 20:27; 1Co 11:23; 2Co 2:17; Ga 1:10; 1Th 2:4

Go ye up.

1Ki 18:27; 22:15; Ec 11:1; La 4:21; Am 4:4,5; Mt 26:45

shall I adjure.

1Sa 14:24; 1Ki 22:16; Mt 26:63; Mr 5:7; Ac 19:13

he said.

Mt 26:64

as sheep.

33,34; 1Ki 22:17,34-36; Jer 23:1,2; Eze 34:5,6,8; Zec 10:2; 13:7

Mt 9:36; Mr 6:34

master.

2Sa 2:7; 5:2; 2Ki 10:3

Did I not tell.

7; 1Ki 22:18; Pr 29:1; Jer 43:2,3

but evil. or, but for evil.

hear the word.

Isa 1:10; 28:14; 39:5; Jer 2:4; 19:3; 34:4; Am 7:16

I saw.

1Ki 22:19-23; Isa 6:1-5; Da 7:9; Ac 7:55,56

all the host.

Ge 32:2; Ps 103:20,21; Zec 1:10

Who shall entice.

1Ki 22:20; Job 12:16; Isa 6:9,10; 54:16; Eze 14:9; 2Th 2:11,12

Jas 1:13,14

go up.

25:8,19; Pr 11:5

there came.

Job 1:6; 2:1; 2Co 11:3,13-15

a lying spirit.

22; Ge 3:4,5

See on

1Ki 22:21,22; Joh 8:44; 1Jo 4:6; Re 12:9; 13:14; 20:8

Thou shalt.

19; Jud 9:23; Job 1:12; 2:6; Ps 109:17

the lord hath.

Ex 4:21; Job 12:16; Isa 19:14; Eze 14:3-5,9; Mt 24:24,25

2Co 11:11-13; 2Th 2:9-11; 1Ti 4:1,2

and the Lord.

7,17; 25:18; Isa 3:11; Jer 18:11; Mic 2:3; Mt 26:24,25; Mr 14:20,21

Zedekiah.

10; 1Ki 22:23-25; Isa 50:5,6; Jer 20:2; La 3:30; Mic 5:1; Mt 26:67

Mr 14:65; Joh 18:22,23; Ac 23:2,3

Which way.

Jer 29:26,27; Mt 26:67,68; Joh 9:40,41

Behold.

Isa 26:11; Jer 28:16,17; 29:21,22,32

into an inner chamber. or, from chamber to chamber. Heb.into a chamber in a chamber. "In one of the halls of the {seraglio} at Constantinople," says De La Motraye, "the eunuch made us pass by several little chambers, with doors shut, like the cells of monks or nuns, as far as I could judge by one that another eunuch opened." This exactly corresponds with the idea of a "chamber within a chamber;" and it would appear that Micaiah predicted that Zedekiah should fly for shelter to a Harem, which we have seen was deemed inviolate. (See on 1 Sa 19:16.)

1Ki 20:30; Isa 26:20

and carry him back.

8; Jer 37:15-21; 38:6,7; Ac 24:25-27

Put.

15; 16:10; 1Ki 22:26-28; Jer 20:2,3; Mt 5:12; Lu 3:19,20; Ac 5:18

2Co 11:23; Re 11:10

this fellow.

1Sa 25:21; Mt 12:24; Lu 23:2; Ac 22:22

bread of affliction.

Ps 80:5; 102:9; Isa 30:20

until I return.

De 29:19; Ps 10:5; Pr 14:16; 1Th 5:2,3

If.

Nu 16:29; Am 9:10; Ac 13:10,11

Hearken.

Mt 13:9; 15:10; Mr 7:14; Lu 20:45,46

the king.

1Ki 22:29-33

I will disguise.

1Sa 28:8; 1Ki 14:2-6; 20:38; Job 24:15; Jer 23:24

put thou on thy robes.

Ps 12:2; Pr 26:25

the king.

35:22,23

Fight ye.

1Ki 20:33,34,42

small or great.

15:13; Ge 19:11; De 1:17

Jehoshaphat.

13:14; 14:11; Ex 14:10; Ps 116:1,2; 2Co 1:9,10

the Lord.

26:7; Ps 34:7; 46:1,11; 94:17; 118:13

God moved them.

Ezr 1:1; 7:27; Ne 1:11; Pr 16:7; 21:1

from pursuing him. Heb. from after him.

1Ki 22:33

a certain man.

1Ki 22:34

at a venture. Heb. in his simplicity.

2Sa 15:11

between the, etc. Heb. between the joints and between thebreast plate. The {shiryon,} in Syriac, {sheryono,} seems to have covered both the back and breast of the warrior, and was consequently not properly a breast-plate, but a coat of mail or corslet. The corslet was made of flax or of wool woven very thick, of ox-hide, of brass, or of iron. The metallic corslet consisted not of solid piece, but of scales, hooks, or rings, connected like the links of a chain, that the warrior might move with greater ease. It was between the joints of this harness that Ahab received his mortal wound.

1Ki 22:34,35

wounded. Heb. made sick.

35:23

he died.

16,19,27; Nu 32:23; Pr 13:21; 28:17