1 Kings 22 Footnotes

22:4 “My horses as your horses” is a Hebrew idiom that simply means, “We are unified in this action.”

22:23 While the “lying spirit” spoke through the prophets, the Lord clearly laid out the truth, and Ahab had a choice of whom to believe. God is truth and cannot lie. He does permit lying spirits to deceive those who will not believe the truth (2Th 2:5-12).

22:28 Micaiah appealed to the Lord’s test of the true prophet: one hundred percent accuracy in prediction verifies that the prophet’s message is from the Lord (Dt 18:21-22).

22:41 The narrative now shifts its focus from the northern kingdom of Israel to the southern kingdom of Judah, and this continues into 2 Kings. The “fourth year” of Ahab was 869 BC, after a coregency with Asa.

22:42 Jehoshaphat reigned twenty-five years, until 848 BC. This number includes a three-year coregency with Asa.

22:51 The “seventeenth year” was 853 BC. Ahaziah reigned for two years, until 852 BC.