1 Kings 22:28
in 1 Kings 22But Micaiah replied, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take heed, all you people!”
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ASV
And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, Jehovah hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you.
KJV
And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.
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This verse in 1 Kings 22
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
return him to Amon the governor of the city
on 1 Kings 22:26-28
Micaiah stakes his whole office on the outcome: “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me”. It is the test Deuteronomy 18:22 sets for a true prophet. Micaiah calls the crowd itself to witness it before the battle: “Take heed, all you people”.
This site's exposition
Take heed, all you people
Micaiah calls the crowd at the gate as witnesses. Micah 1:2 opens with the same summons to all the peoples, and John Wesley keeps the two prophets apart by a century and a half. The outcome at Ramoth-gilead now decides between Micaiah and the four hundred.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And Micaiah said, if thou return at all in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me,.... I am content to be reckoned a false prophet, and to be punished as such: and, he said, hearken, O people, everyone of you; he called aloud unto them to observe what he had predicted, and mark the issue of it, and to bear testimony for him, or against him, as things should be.
40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead. The matter in contest between God's prophet and Ahab's prophets is here soon determined, and it is made to appear which was in the right.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Put this fellow in prison--Ahab, under the impulse of vehement resentment, remands the prophet until his return. 27, 28. bread of affliction, water of affliction--that is, the poorest prison fare.
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֹּ֣אמֶר | vaiyomer | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| מִיכָ֔יְהוּ | mikhayehu | Micaiah | H4321 → | 21 times |
| אִם־ | ʾim- | <if> | H518 → | 1069 times |
| שׁ֤וֹב | shov | certainly [if] <to return> | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| תָּשׁוּב֙ | tashuv | you will return | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| בְּשָׁל֔וֹם | beshalom | in peace | H7965 → | 236 times |
| לֹֽא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| דִבֶּ֥ר | diber | he has spoken | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| בִּ֑י | bi | by me | ||
| וַיֹּ֕אמֶר | vaiyomer | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| שִׁמְע֖וּ | shimu | listen | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| עַמִּ֥ים | ʾamim | O peoples | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| כֻּלָּֽם׃ | kulam | all of them | H3605 → | 5413 times |
וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said
vaiyomerH559 →5305 times
מִיכָ֔יְהוּMicaiah
mikhayehuH4321 →21 times
אִם־<if>
ʾim-H518 →1069 times
שׁ֤וֹבcertainly [if] <to return>
shovH7725 →1056 times
תָּשׁוּב֙you will return
tashuvH7725 →1056 times
בְּשָׁל֔וֹםin peace
beshalomH7965 →236 times
לֹֽא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
דִבֶּ֥רhe has spoken
diberH1696 →1141 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
בִּ֑יby me
bi
וַיֹּ֕אמֶרand he said
vaiyomerH559 →5305 times
שִׁמְע֖וּlisten
shimuH8085 →1159 times
עַמִּ֥יםO peoples
ʾamimH5971 →1873 times
כֻּלָּֽם׃all of them
kulamH3605 →5413 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Micah 1:2Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.
it leads to
- Psalms 11:4
The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.
- Isaiah 1:2
Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
- Psalms 50:7
“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
- Mark 7:14–15
Once again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “All of you, listen to Me and understand:
- Jeremiah 22:29
O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!
- Psalms 11:4
Through
Mark 12:37David himself calls Him ‘Lord.’ So how can He be David’s son?” And the large crowd listened to Him with delight.
it leads to
- Romans 1:3–4
regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,
- Luke 19:48
Yet they could not find a way to do so, because all the people hung on His words.
- Romans 1:3–4
Through
Numbers 16:29If these men die a natural death, or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.
it leads to
- Lamentations 4:22
O Daughter of Zion, your punishment is complete; He will not prolong your exile. But He will punish your iniquity, O Daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.
- Lamentations 4:22
Where this verse is studied
About 1 Kings
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.