1 Kings 22:19-29

19 Micaiah said, "Therefore, hear the word of the LORD. ¹I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and ²all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.

20 "The LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?' And one said this while another said that.

21 "Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD and said, 'I will entice him.'

22 "The LORD said to him, 'How?' And he said, 'I will go out and ³be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' Then He said, 'You are to entice him and also prevail. Go and do so.'

23 "Now therefore, behold, ⁴the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the LORD has proclaimed disaster against you."

24 Then ⁵Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "⁶How * did the Spirit of the LORD pass from me to speak to you?"

25 Micaiah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day when you ⁷enter an inner room to hide yourself."

26 Then the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son;

27 and say, 'Thus says the king, "⁸Put this man in prison * and feed him sparingly with bread and water until I return safely.""'

28 Micaiah said, "⁹If you indeed return safely the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "¹⁰Listen, all you people."

Defeat and Death of Ahab

29 So ¹¹the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead.

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1 Kings 22:19-29 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 22

This chapter relates, that after three years' peace with the king of Syria, Ahab was inclined to go to war with him, to take Ramothgilead out of his hands; and he drew in Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, to join him in it, 1Ki 22:1-4, but before they went into it, they took advice, Ahab of his four hundred prophets, which Jehoshaphat not being satisfied with, a true prophet of the Lord, Micahah, was sent for, 1Ki 22:5-14 who, when he came, jeered Ahab with what his prophets had said to him; intimated that he should be killed, and explained it to him how he came to be deceived by his prophets, 1Ki 22:15-23 upon which he was smitten on the cheek by Zedekiah, one of the false prophets, and imprisoned by the order of Ahab, 1Ki 22:24-28, after which the two kings went to the battle, and Jehoshaphat was in great danger of his life; but Ahab was wounded, and died, 1Ki 22:29-40, and the chapter is concluded with an account of the reign of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, 1Ki 22:41-50, and of Ahaziah king of Israel, 1Ki 22:51-53.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

1. Isaiah 6:1; Ezekiel 1:26-28; Daniel 7:9, 10
2. Job 1:6; Job 2:1; Psalms 103:20, 21; Daniel 7:10; Matthew 18:10; Hebrews 1:7, 14
3. Judges 9:23; 1 Samuel 16:14; 1 Samuel 18:10; 1 Samuel 19:9; Ezekiel 14:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:11
4. Ezekiel 14:9
5. 1 Kings 22:11; Matthew 5:39; Acts 23:2, 3
6. 2 Chronicles 18:23
7. 1 Kings 20:30
8. 2 Chronicles 16:10; 2 Chronicles 18:25-27
9. Deuteronomy 18:22
10. Micah 1:2
11. 1 Kings 22:3, 4

Footnotes 2

[a]. Lit "he"
[b]. Lit "with bread of affliction and water of affliction"