1 Kings 22:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

There is yet one, to wit, in this place, for whom I can speedily send; for there were also other prophets elsewhere in the kingdom, as Elijah, Elisha, and others; but these were not at hand for the present occasion. Micaiah; not one of the twelve prophets, who lived about one hundred and fifty years after this time, but another of that name. He doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil; he is always a messenger of evil tidings; which was true, but no sufficient reason why he should hate him, because Micaiah was purely God's instrument in all his messages; and whatsoever evil he threatened, Ahab himself was the cause and procurer of it. Let not the king say so; do not presage evil to our enterprise: let us neither hate his person, nor despise his message; but first hear it, and then do as we see cause.

1 Kings 22:8

8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.