Micaiah in Easton's Bible Dictionary
who is like Jehovah?, the son of Imlah, a faithful prophet
of
Samaria (1 Kings 22:8-28). Three years after the
great battle
with Ben-hadad (20:29-34), Ahab proposed to
Jehoshaphat, king of
Judah, that they should go up against Ramoth-Gilead
to do battle
again with Ben-hadad. Jehoshaphat agreed, but
suggested that
inquiry should be first made "at the word of
Jehovah." Ahab's
prophets approved of the expedition; but
Jehoshaphat, still
dissatisfied, asked if there was no other prophet
besides the
four hundred that had appeared, and was informed of
this
Micaiah. He was sent for from prison, where he had
been
confined, probably on account of some prediction
disagreeable to
Ahab; and he condemned the expedition, and
prophesied that it
would end, as it did, in disaster. We hear nothing
further of
this prophet. Some have supposed that he was the
unnamed prophet
referred to in 1 Kings 20:35-42.
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