Aram Belongs Gilead Hands Keeping Nothing Ours Quiet Ramoth Ramoth-gilead Retake Servants Silent Syria Taking Yet
22:3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that {c} Ramoth in Gilead [is] ours, and we [be] still, [and] take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
(c) The kings of Syria kept Ramoth before this league was made by Benhadad: therefore he did not think he was bound by it to restore it.
22:3 Is ours - Belongeth to us by right. both by God's donation, and by our last agreement with Ben - hadad, chap.20:34, which yet he refuseth to deliver up.
22:1-14 The same easiness of temper, which betrays some godly persons into friendship with the declared enemies of religion, renders it very dangerous to them. They will be drawn to wink at and countenance such conduct and conversation as they ought to protest against with abhorrence. Whithersoever a good man goes, he ought to take his religion with him, and not be ashamed to own it when he is with those who have no regard for it. Jehoshaphat had not left behind him, at Jerusalem, his affection and reverence for the word of the Lord, but avowed it, and endeavoured to bring it into Ahab's court. And Ahab's prophets, to please Jehoshaphat, made use of the name of Jehovah: to please Ahab, they said, Go up. But the false prophets cannot so mimic the true, but that he who has spiritual senses exercised, can discern the fallacy. One faithful prophet of the Lord was worth them all. Wordly men have in all ages been alike absurd in their views of religion. They would have the preacher fit his doctrine to the fashion of the times, and the taste of the hearers, and yet to add. Thus saith the Lord, to words that men would put into their mouths. They are ready to cry out against a man as rude and foolish, who scruples thus to try to secure his own interests, and to deceive others.
Aram Belongs Gilead Hand Israel Keeping Officials Ours Quiet Ramoth Ramoth-Gilead Servants Silent Syria
Aram Belongs Gilead Hand Israel Keeping Officials Ours Quiet Ramoth Ramoth-Gilead Servants Silent Syria
