And Micaiah said. — Literally as 1 Kings 22:28.
If thou certainly return. — “If thou dost return.”
And he said — i.e., Micaiah said, turning to the crowd of bystanders, and making them witnesses to his prediction.
Hearken, all ye people. — Rather, Hearken ye, O peoples all! Literally, all of them. The book of the prophet Micah opens with these very words (Micah 1:2). Hitzig thinks they were taken from that passage, and Nöldeke, that they “must be and denote an abbreviation of the entire book.” (!) Thenius, on the other hand, justly argues that the whole section before us bears indubitable marks of historical truth, and is probably an extract from the history of Jehoshaphat written by Jehu the son of Hanani (2 Chronicles 20:34).