Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
A PROPHET REPROVES HIM. (I Kings 20:35-42)
Smite me—This prophet is supposed (I Kings 20:8) to have been Micaiah. The refusal of his neighbor to smite the prophet was manifestly wrong, as it was a withholding of necessary aid to a prophet in the discharge of a duty to which he had been called by God, and it was severely punished [I Kings 20:36], as a beacon to warn others (see on 1Ki. 13:2-24). The prophet found a willing assistant, and then, waiting for Ahab, leads the king unconsciously, in the parabolic manner of Nathan (II Samuel 12:1-4), to pronounce his own doom; and this consequent punishment was forthwith announced by a prophet (see on I Kings 21:17).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Kings 20:36:
1 Kings 20:35-38
1 Kings 20:35-38
2 Kings 17:24-28
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