1-Kings - 22:28



28 Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me." He said, "Listen, all you people!"

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Kings 22:28.

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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.
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.
And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.
And Micah said, If thou return at all in peace, Jehovah has not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O peoples, all of you!
And Micaiah said, If you come back at all in peace, the Lord has not sent his word by me.
And Micaiah said, "If you will have returned in peace, the Lord has not spoken through me." And he said, "May all the people hear it."

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, (v) Hearken, O people, every one of you.
(v) That when you see these things come to pass you may give God the glory, and know that I am his true prophet.

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.

In his consciousness of the divine truth of his announcement, Micah left the king with these words: "If thou come back safe, Jehovah has not spoken by me. Hear it, all ye nations." עמּים does not mean people, for it is only in the antique language of the Pentateuch that the word has this meaning, but nations; and Micah thereby invokes not only the persons present as witnesses of the truth of his words, but the nations generally, Israel and the surrounding nations, who were to discern the truth of his word from the events which would follow (see at Micah 1:2).

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