1 Kings 22:27

27 Tell him, 'The king says, "Put this fellow in prison. Don't give him anything but bread and water until I return safely." ' "

1 Kings 22:27 Meaning and 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 then he would punish him more severely, even with death, as a false prophet.

1 Kings 22:27 In-Context

25 Micaiah replied, "You will find out on the day you go to hide in an inside room to save your life."

26 Then the king of Israel gave an order. He said, "Take Micaiah away. Send him back to Amon. Amon is the ruler of the city of Samaria. And send him back to Joash. Joash is a member of the royal court.

27 Tell him, 'The king says, "Put this fellow in prison. Don't give him anything but bread and water until I return safely." ' "

28 Micaiah announced, "Do you really think you will return safely? If you do, the LORD hasn't spoken through me." He continued, "All of you people, remember what I've said!"

29 So the king of Israel went up to Ramoth Gilead. Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went there too.