1 Kings 22:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?

1 Kings 22:24 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 23:2
And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
Micah 5:1
Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
Lamentations 3:30
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
Matthew 5:39
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew 27:42-43
He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-28)

Here Micaiah does well, but, as is common, suffers ill for so doing. I. We are told how faithfully he delivered his message, as one that was more solicitous to please God than to humour either the great or the many. In three ways he delivers his message, and all displeasing to Ahab:— 1. He spoke as the rest of the prophets had spoken, but ironically: Go, and prosper, 1 Kgs. 22:15. Ahab put the sam…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24-25. Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek--The insolence of this man, the leader of the false prophets, seems to have been provoked by jealousy at Micaiah’s assumed monopoly of the spirit of inspiration. This mode of smiting, usually with a shoe, is both severe and ignominious. The calm reply of the Lord’s prophet consisted in announcing the fate of the false p…