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1 Kings 22:29

in 1 Kings 22

So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.

KJV

So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth–gilead.

This verse in 1 Kings 22

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
So the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, went up to Ramothgilead. Which, according to Bunting (r), was twenty four miles from Samaria.

This site's exposition

went up to Ramoth–gilead

on 1 Kings 22:29-30

The two kings go up together, but Ahab disguises himself for the battle while asking Jehoshaphat to wear the royal robes, a plan that places the ally in the danger the word had named for the king. It reads as a man trying to outmaneuver a prophecy he has just heard and still refuses to believe.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He was ready to give his opinion with the majority, and to conclude that it was 400 to one but they should succeed. Micaiah had not forbidden them to go; nay, at first, he said, Go, and prosper. If it came to the worst, it was only Ahab's fall that was foretold, and therefore Jehoshaphat hoped he might safely venture.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

It might have been expected that Jehoshaphat would have withdrawn from the expedition when he heard Micaiah denounce it. He had, however, rashly committed himself to take part in the war by a solemn promise, before he bethought himself of inquiring what was the will of God in the matter. Now he was ashamed to draw back, especially as Ahab, whom the prophecy chiefly threatened, was resolved to brave it. He may also have had a personal affection for Ahab, and so have been loth to desert him in his need. Compare 2Ch 19:2.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

The corpse was conveyed to Samaria; and, as the chariot which brought it was being washed, in a pool near the city, from the blood that had profusely oozed from the wound, the dogs, in conformity with Elijah's prophecy, came and licked it [1Ki 21:19]. Ahab was succeeded by his son Ahaziah [1Ki 22:40].

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיַּ֧עַלand he went up

    vaiyaalH5927890 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H44282525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֛לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • וְיהוֹשָׁפָ֥טand Jehoshaphat

    vihoshafatH309284 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H44282525 times

  • יְהוּדָ֖הJudah

    yehudahH3063819 times

  • רָמֹ֥תRamoth

    ramotH741822 times

  • גִּלְעָֽד׃Gilead

    giladH1568134 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

1 stop

Each 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

    2 Chronicles 18:28

    So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 22:29–33

      So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The Death of Ahab — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Death of Ahab — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.