1 Kings 1:41
1:41 Now Adonijah and all his guests heard the commotion just as they had finished eating. 1 When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he asked, “Why is there such a noisy commotion in the city?” 2
1 Kings 11:21
11:21 While in Egypt Hadad heard that David had passed away 3 and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead. So Hadad asked Pharaoh, “Give me permission to leave 4 so I can return to my homeland.”
1 Kings 12:6
12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 5 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 6 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
1 Kings 19:13
19:13 When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden 7 a voice asked him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”
1 Kings 22:6
22:6 So the king of Israel assembled about four hundred prophets and asked them, “Should I attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” 8 They said, “Attack! The sovereign one 9 will hand it over to the king.”
1 Kings 22:15
22:15 When he came before the king, the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” He answered him, “Attack! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.” 10
1 tn Heb “And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard, now they had finished eating.”
2 tn Heb “Why is the city’s sound noisy?”
3 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
4 tn Heb “send me away.”
5 tn Heb “stood before.”
6 tn Heb “saying.”
7 tn Heb “look.”
8 tn Heb “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”
9 tn Though Jehoshaphat requested an oracle from “the Lord” (יְהוָה, Yahweh), they stop short of actually using this name and substitute the title אֲדֹנָי (’adonai, “lord; master”). This ambiguity may explain in part Jehoshaphat’s hesitancy and caution (vv. 7-8). He seems to doubt that the four hundred are genuine prophets of the Lord.
10 sn “Attack! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.” One does not expect Micaiah, having just vowed to speak only what the Lord tells him, to agree with the other prophets and give the king an inaccurate prophecy. Micaiah’s actions became understandable later, when it is revealed that the Lord desires to deceive the king and lead him to his demise. The Lord even dispatches a lying spirit to deceive Ahab’s prophets. Micaiah can lie to the king because he realizes this lie is from the Lord. It is important to note that in v. 14 Micaiah only vows to speak the word of the Lord; he does not necessarily say he will tell the truth. In this case the Lord’s word itself is deceptive. Only when the king adjures him to tell the truth (v. 16), does Micaiah do so.