and say, ‘Thus says the king: “Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”
Parallel translations
- WEB Say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”
- KJV And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
- BSB and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
- NASB and say, ‘This is what the king says: “Put this man in prison, and feed him enough bread and water to survive until I return safely.” ’ ”
- NLT Give them this order from the king: ‘Put this man in prison, and feed him nothing but bread and water until I return safely from the battle!’”
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Quick answer
Ahab commands that Micaiah be jailed on meager rations until the king returns safely, confident he will prove the prophet wrong.
Overview
The king sentences Micaiah to bread and water of affliction, assuming his own safe return. His phrase until I come in peace is a defiant bet against God's word. The arrangement ironically sets up the dramatic vindication of the prophet, since Ahab will not return at all.
Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Chr 16:10Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
- 2 Chr 18:25–27The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;
- Rev 2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
- Jer 20:2Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.
- Deut 16:3You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste; that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
- Isa 30:20Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;
- Lam 3:53–55They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
- Mark 6:17–28For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.
- Luke 3:20added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
- Jer 38:6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
- Acts 16:23–24When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
- Acts 26:10This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
- Acts 5:18and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody.
- Eph 3:1For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
- 1 Th 5:2–3For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
- Jas 4:13–14Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
- Ps 127:2It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
- Ps 80:5You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
- Ps 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
- Luke 12:45–46But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
- Jer 29:26“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
- Jer 37:15The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
- Acts 24:25–27As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”
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