Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”
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Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”
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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.
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and say: Thus saith the king: Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with scant bread and with scant water, until I come in peace.'
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Passages linked to 1 Kings 22:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 16:10 Then 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 Chronicles 18:25-27 The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son; and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.” ’ ” Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, you people, all of you!”
- Revelation 2:10 Don’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.
- Deuteronomy 16:3 You 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.
- Psalms 80:5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
- Psalms 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
- Psalms 127:2 It 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.
- Isaiah 30:20 Though 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;
- Jeremiah 20:2 Then 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.
- Jeremiah 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 crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
- Jeremiah 37:15 The 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.
- Jeremiah 38:6 Then they took Jeremiah and threw 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.
- Lamentations 3:53-55 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me. Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.” I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
- Mark 6:17-28 For 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. For John said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t, for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly. Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee. When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, “Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.” He swore to her, “Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.” She went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.” She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.” The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her. Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.
- Luke 3:20 added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
- Luke 12:45-46 But 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, then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
- Acts 5:18 and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.
- Acts 16:23-24 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely, who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
- Acts 26:10 I also did this 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.
- Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2-3 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
- James 4:13-14 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
- Acts 24:25-27 As 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.” Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him. But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Let him be pined away with hunger, and be…
Let him be pined away with hunger, and be fed with a small portion of bread and water.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 22:27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put…
1Ki 22:27 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.
Ver. 27. Put this fellow in the prison.] So Savanarola was served for his plain dealing with the Pope; but Mancinell much worse; who, for reproving Pope Alexander VI in a sermon at Rome, had first his hands cut off and then his tongue cut out; of which wound he died. {a} Livy {b} boasteth of the ancient Romans, that no nation had more gentle punishments for offenders than they; and that for the first seventy years, till the reign of Ancus Martius, they were without a prison. But the modern Romists, as they are noted for their cruelty - witness the bloody inquisition - so it is said to be a like difficult thing amongst them to find a wicked man in their prisons, or a good man out of them.
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And feed him with bread of affliction.] With prisoners’ pittance; such as may keep him alive only, for further punishment at my return. The martyrs in the Marian times were fed, many of them, with bread made most part with sawdust; this was bread of affliction, worse than that in Deu 16:3. Bonner allowed William Hunter a half penny a day in bread and drink in prison. {c} Dr Martin bid the keeper give Elizabeth Young one day bread, and another day water. {d} The Bishop of Norwich kept Robert Samuel without meat and drink, whereby he was unmercifully vexed, saving that he had every day allowed two or three morsels of bread, and three spoonfuls of water. How oft would he have drunk his own water! but his body was so dried up with long emptiness, that he was not able to make one drop of water. {e}
{a} Jac. Revius.
{b} Lib. i.
{c} Act. and Mon., 1397.
{d} Ibid., 1872.
{e} Ibid., 1547.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i. e. With a very coarse and sparing diet,…
i. e. With a very coarse and sparing diet, whereby he may be only supported to endure his torment. See Deu 16:3; 2Ch 18:26; Isa 30:20.
Until I come in peace; until I return in triumph, which I doubt not I shall do in spite of all his malicious suggestions to the contrary, and then I shall call him to an account for all his lies and impudence.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and…
But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had the rule over his chariots,.... This was the number of his kings in the first battle with Israel, and of his captains in the second, Kg1 20:1, and the same number he had now, being very probably not only the number of his chariots, but the division of his army was into so many battalions, under the command of these captains of chariots:
saying, fight neither with small nor great; of those that belonged to Jehoshaphat:
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save only with the king of Israel; and his men; for it can hardly be thought that his orders were to fight with none, nor kill any in the battle but Ahab personally; though it is very probable he might give them directions to aim at him chiefly, knowing that, if he was killed or taken, his army would flee or surrender; and he might be desirous of getting him into his hands, as he had been in his; and the rather his spite was against him, as he was the mover of the war.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Bread, &c. - With a very course and sparing…
Bread, &c. - With a very course and sparing diet, whereby he may be only supported to endure his torment.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 27. Feed him with bread of affliction.] Deprive…
Verse 27. Feed him with bread of affliction.] Deprive him of all the conveniences and comforts of life; treat him severely; just keep him alive, that he may see my triumph.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Feed him with bread of affliction ... - Micaiah…
Feed him with bread of affliction ... - Micaiah is to be once more put in prison, but, in order to punish him for his uncomplying spirit, upon a poorer and scantier diet than he had been previously allowed. This is to continue until Ahab returns in peace. Ahab introduces this expression purposely, in order to show his entire disbelief of Micaiah’s prophecy.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Distress, both "in small quantity," (Paralipomenon) and very bad.…
Distress, both "in small quantity," (Paralipomenon) and very bad. (Grotius) (Tirinus) (Isaias xxx. 20.) --- Peace, when I will punish thee, as an impostor. (Menochius) --- How grating must this have been to the good king Josaphat; and still he does not abandon the company of such infatuated people! (Ver. 29.) (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain bread of affliction, water of affliction--that is, the poorest…
bread of affliction, water of affliction--that is, the poorest prison fare. Micaiah submitted, but reiterated aloud, in the presence of all, that the issue of the war would be fatal to Ahab.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 27. Bread of affliction — Scanty prison fare, causing…
27. Bread of affliction — Scanty prison fare, causing pain and sorrow, and ever reminding him of cruelty and want.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 27. bread of affliction] Prison fare. The expression is…
27. bread of affliction] Prison fare. The expression is found in Isa_30:20, of the suffering of Israel in captivity. Hence it indicates the food which would be procurable in a time of siege, or by prisoners in captivity.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (27) Bread of affliction . . .—Comp. Isa_30:20. This…
(27) Bread of affliction . . .—Comp. Isa_30:20. This is a command of severe treatment, as well as scanty fare. Ahab’s affectation of disbelief—which his subsequent conduct shows to be but affectation—simply draws down a plainer and sterner prediction, accompanied moreover, if our text be correct by an appeal to the whole assembly to bear witness of it. Of Micaiah’s fate we know nothing; but it is hard to suppose that his bold and defiant testimony could escape the extreme penalty of death, when Ahab’s fall gave opportunity of revival to the ruthlessness of Jezebel.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And say Heb. thou shalt say, Thus saith the…
And say Heb. thou shalt say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison Heb. house of the prison. Bahr thinks that Micaiah had formerly been in arrest under Amon"s charge, and now was to be committed to the prison proper. But more probably the words mean, "put him in the prison again." His superadded punishment was to be in the shape of prison diet. It is probable that it was owing to the presence of Jehoshaphat that Micaiah escaped with no severer sentence, and feed him with bread of affliction or oppression, jl pressit; (cf. Exo_3:9; Num_22:25; 2Ki_6:32) and with water of affliction Josephus (Ant. 8:15. 4) relates that after Micaiah"s prediction the king was in great suspense and fear, until Zedekiah deliberately smote him, in order to show that he was powerless to avenge an injury as the man of God did, (1Ki_13:4) and therefore no true prophet. This may be an "empty Rabbinical tradition" (Bahr), but we may be sure that Ahab did not hear Micaiah"s words unmoved. He had had such convincing proofs of the foresight and powers of the Lord"s prophets that he may well have trembled, even as he put on a bold front, and sent Micaiah back to the prison house, until I come in peace. This looks like an effort to encourage himself and those around him. But it almost betrays his misgivings. He would have them think he had no fears.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Put this fellow in the prison.
1Ki_22:27
Put this fellow in the prison.
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Persecuting the truth-teller
One evening, at a small literary gathering, a lady, famous for her muslin theology, was bewailing the wickedness of the Jews in not receiving our Saviour, and ended a diatribe by expressing regret that He had not appeared in our own time. How delighted, said she, we should all be to throw our doors open to Him, and listen to His Divine precepts! Dont you think so, Mr. Carlyle? The sturdy philosopher thus appealed to, said, in his broad Scotch, No, madam, I dont. I think that, had He come very fashionably dressed, with plenty of money, and preaching doctrines palatable to the higher orders, I might have had the honour of receiving from you a card of invitation, on the back of which would be written, To meet our Saviour; but if He had come uttering His sublime precepts, and denouncing the Pharisees, and associating with publicans and lower orders, as He did, you would have treated Him much as the Jews did, and would have cried out, Take Him to Newgate and hang Him!
Imprisoned conscience
Do we not all know that honest friends have sometimes fallen out of favour, perhaps with ourselves, because they have persistently kept telling us what our consciences and common sense knew to be true, that if we go on that road we shall be suffocated in a bog? A man makes up his mind to a course of conduct. He has a shrewd suspicion that his honest friend will condemn, and that the condemnation will be right. What does he do, therefore? He never tells his friend, and if, by chance, that friend may say what was expected of him, he gets angry with his adviser and goes his road. I suppose we all know what it is to treat our consciences in the style in which Ahab treated Micaiah. We do not listen to them because we know what they will say before they have said it. And we call ourselves sensible people! Martin Luther once said: It is neither safe nor wise to do anything against conscience. But Ahab puts Micaiah in prison, and we shut up our consciences in a dungeon, and put a gag in their mouths, and a muffler over the gag, that we may hear them say no word, because we know what we are doing, and we are doggedly determined to do, is wrong. (A. Maclaren, D. D.)
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