Post by Lee on Aug 28, 2014 1:52:35 GMT
1Ki 22:14 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.
1Ki 22:15 So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
1Ki 22:16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?
No doubt the answer of Micaiah in 1 Kings 22:15 is to be taken as an ironical reechoing of the reply of the false prophets. The adjuration that it at once evoked from Ahab (5:16), shows that it must have been so. Thus challenged, Micaiah speedily altered both tone and message, showing that the Lord had spoken evil concerning Ahab. The blow on the cheek from the discredited Zedekiah, the prompt committal to prison by the enraged king, and Micaiah’s challenge to all the people as he departed (5:28, ) emphasized the contrast between the false and the true; the fortunes of the day vindicated the one against the four hundred, and Israel returned “having no master,” the idolatrous Ahab having fallen beneath the divinely guided arrow from the bow that a certain man drew at a venture.
. Vol. 36: The Christadelphian: Volume 36. 2001 (electronic ed.) (28–29). Birmingham: Christadelphian Magazine & Publishing Association.
This makes me think of Elijah mocking the other prophets: "Maybe you should yell louder, as your god might be asleep!".
1Ki 22:15 So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
1Ki 22:16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?
No doubt the answer of Micaiah in 1 Kings 22:15 is to be taken as an ironical reechoing of the reply of the false prophets. The adjuration that it at once evoked from Ahab (5:16), shows that it must have been so. Thus challenged, Micaiah speedily altered both tone and message, showing that the Lord had spoken evil concerning Ahab. The blow on the cheek from the discredited Zedekiah, the prompt committal to prison by the enraged king, and Micaiah’s challenge to all the people as he departed (5:28, ) emphasized the contrast between the false and the true; the fortunes of the day vindicated the one against the four hundred, and Israel returned “having no master,” the idolatrous Ahab having fallen beneath the divinely guided arrow from the bow that a certain man drew at a venture.
. Vol. 36: The Christadelphian: Volume 36. 2001 (electronic ed.) (28–29). Birmingham: Christadelphian Magazine & Publishing Association.
This makes me think of Elijah mocking the other prophets: "Maybe you should yell louder, as your god might be asleep!".