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2 Chronicles 18:26

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.’”
2 Chronicles 18:26 · Berean Standard Bible
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  • WEB and 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 return 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 return in peace.
  • NKJV and say, ‘Thus says the king: “Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction, until I return in peace.” ’ ”
  • 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 scant rations until the king returns safely.

Overview

Confident he will come back victorious, Ahab sets his own return as the test of the prophecy. He unwittingly stakes everything on a promise God has already condemned. The arrogance of presuming on a future God has not granted invites ruin.

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Cross-references · 20

  • 2 Chr 16:10Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
  • Deut 29:19because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
  • 1 Sam 25:21Now David had just finished saying, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.
  • 1 Kgs 22:26–28And the king of Israel declared, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,
  • 2 Chr 18:15But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”
  • Prov 14:16A wise man fears and turns from evil, but a fool is careless and reckless.
  • Isa 30:20The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
  • Luke 23:2And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding payment of taxes to Caesar, and proclaiming Himself to be Christ, a King.”
  • Luke 3:19–20But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,
  • Acts 5:18and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.
  • Acts 22:22The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”
  • 2 Cor 11:23Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
  • 1 Th 5:2–3For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
  • Ps 10:5He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
  • Ps 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
  • Ps 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
  • Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”
  • Matt 5:12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
  • Jer 20:2–3he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
  • Rev 11:10And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them, and will celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.

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Temple, priesthood, and the repeated need for a faithful king who seeks the LORD all point past every imperfect reign to the King and Temple who finally and fully dwell with God's people.

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