1st Kings Chapter 22 verse 29 Holy Bible
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
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So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead.
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And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-Gilead.
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So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.
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So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
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So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
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And the king of Israel goeth up, and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, to Ramoth-Gilead.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 29. - So the king of Israel and Jehoshapat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-Gilead to battle. ["By the very network of evil counsel which he has woven for himself is the king of Israel led to his ruin" (Stanley). We can hardly doubt that Jehoshaphat at least would have been well content to abandon the expedition. After the solicitude he had manifested for the sanction of one of the prophets of Jehovah, and after that the one who had been consulted had predicted the defeat of the army, the king of Judah must have had re,my misgivings. But it is not difficult to understand why, notwithstanding his fears, he did not draw back. For, in the first place, he had committed himself to the war by the rash and positive promise of ver. 4. In the next place, he was Ahab's guest, and had been sumptuously entertained by him, and it would therefore require some moral courage to extricate himself from the toils in which he was entangled. Moreover he would have subjected himself to the imputation of cowardice had he deserted his ally because of a prophecy which threatened the latter with death. The people around him, again, including perhaps his own retinue, were possessed with the spirit of battle, and treated the prophecy of Micaiah with contempt, and it would be difficult for him to swim alone against the current. It is probable, too, that he discounted the portentous words of Micaiah on account of the long. standing quarrel between him and Ahab. And, finally, we must remember that his own interests were threatened by Syria, and he may well have feared trouble from that quarter in case this war were abandoned. Rawlinson suggests that he may have conceived a personal affection for Ahab; but 2 Chronicles 19:2 affords but slender ground for this conclusion.]
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(29) So . . . Jehoshaphat.--The continued adhesion of Jehoshaphat, against the voice of prophecy, which he had himself invoked (severely rebuked in 2Chronicles 18:31), and, indeed, the subservient part which he plays throughout, evidently indicate a position of virtual dependence of Judah on the stronger power of Israel, of which the alliance by marriage--destined to be all but fatal to the dynasty of David (2Kings 11:1-2)--was at once the sign and the cause.
