7 But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?"
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Jehoshaphat was dissatisfied. These men - creatures of Ahab, tainted with the worship of calves if not with Baal-worship - had promised victory, but not in the name of Yahweh. Jehoshaphat, therefore, asked, "Is there not here a true prophet of Yahweh besides these 400 professed prophets?"
And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the (g) LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
(g) Jehoshaphat did not acknowledge the false prophets to be God's ministers, but contemned them.
And Jehoshaphat said, is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might inquire of him? He suspected these to be false prophets, though he would not call them so; nor suggest that they were not the prophets of the Lord, because he would not affront Ahab, who had an opinion of them; and therefore asks, if there were no other that went under the character of a prophet of the Lord, that he might inquire of him for his further satisfaction.
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