20So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
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Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-20)We have here the meeting between Ahab and Elijah, as bad a king as ever the world was plagued with and as good a prophet as ever the church was blessed with. 1. Ahab, like himself, basely accused Elijah. He durst not strike him, remembering that Jeroboam’s hand withered when it was stretched out against a prophet, but gave him bad language, which was no less an affront to him that sent him. It was…
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