[¹] Or, from chamber to chamber.
24. Behold, thou shalt see] Micaiah answers Zedekiah’s gibe with the verb “see” (rather than “know”) because of its double meaning, “Behold, thou shalt be a seer, thou shalt possess the power of vision,” when it is too late.
go into an inner chamber] i.e. seek safety in hiding from enemies; compare 1 Kings xx. 30 (same Hebrew phrase).
²⁵And the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;
25. carry him back] Micaiah is not to accompany the expedition, having foretold its failure.
²⁶and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
26. bread of affliction ... water of affliction] Compare Ezekiel iv. 9–11.
²⁷And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you.
27. ye peoples, all of you] The “peoples” represented at this gathering were probably, Israel, Judah, Edom, and Moab. The clause occurs in Micah i. 2, and in all probability has been added to the text of Kings (which the Chronicler here copies) by a glossator, who perhaps thought that Micaiah and Micah were one and the same person.
28–34 (= 1 Kings xxii. 29–37).
The Death of Ahab at Ramoth-gilead.