The battle increased that day There was a sharp fight after this; insomuch that the king, for fear his soldiers should give way, would return into the field, notwithstanding his wounds, and be supported in his chariot, to encourage his army. And died at even Finding, too late, the truth of Micaiah's words; and Zedekiah's horns of iron pushing, not the Syrians, but himself into destruction. And there went a proclamation throughout the host Probably by Jehoshaphat's order, with the consent of the chief captains of Israel. Saying, Every man to his city, &c. It is to no purpose to attempt any thing more: the king is dead, and the battle ended; and therefore every man has liberty to return to his own city and habitation. The Syrians also, it is likely, were content to be gone, having slain their capital enemy. By this proclamation the prediction of Micaiah was exactly fulfilled, according to his vision, 1 Kings 22:17.
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1 Kings 22:35-36
35 And the battle increasedd that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.