1 Kings 22:24

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,…

Smote Micaiah on the cheek - As Micaiah had been brought from prison 1Ki 22:26, it is probable that his hands were bound. The prophet, thus standing before the great ones of the earth, bound and…

Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me - This is an expression of as great insolence as the act was of brutal aggression. "Did the Spirit of the Lord, who rests solely upon me, condescend to…

Here Micaiah does well, but, as is common, suffers ill for so doing.

I. We are told how faithfully he delivered his message, as one that was more solicitous to please God than to humour either the…

But Zedekiah … went[R.V. came] near The verb is the same as in 1Ki 20:13. See note there.

Josephus has a great expansion of the narrative at this point, which leads up to the blow given to Micaiah.…