1 Kings 22:36

Contextual Overview

²⁹Then the king of Israel and Judah’s King Jehoshaphat went up to Ramoth-gilead. ²⁹ So the king of Yisra'el and Yehoshafat the king of Yehudah went up to Ramot-Gil`ad. ²⁹ So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead. ²⁹ So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. ²⁹ So Ahab king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went to Ramoth in Gilead. ²⁹ The king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah attacked Ramoth Gilead. ²⁹So [Ahab] the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. ²⁹ So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead. ²⁹ So the King of Israel and Iehoshaphat the King of Iudah went vp to Ramoth Gilead. ²⁹So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead.

Bible Verse Review
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there went: 1 Kings 22:17, 1 Kings 22:31, 1 Kings 12:16, 2 Kings 14:12

Every man: 1 Kings 12:24, Judges 7:7, Judges 7:8, Judges 21:24, 1 Samuel 4:10, 2 Samuel 19:8, 2 Kings 14:12

Reciprocal: Judges 9:55 - General 2 Chronicles 11:4 - return 2 Chronicles 25:22 - fled Isaiah 13:14 - as the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there went a proclamation throughout the host, about the going down of the sun,.... Much about the time that Ahab died; and this proclamation by an herald might be made by his order, as he was dying, or by Jehoshaphat, when he understood he was dead:

saying, every man to his city, and every man to his own country; the order was to cease fighting, and make the best of their way as fast as they could to their own homes, since their shepherd and master was dead, which fulfilled the vision of Micaiah, 1 Kings 22:17. It seems to have been a drawn battle, at least there is no account of the advantage on either side.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

About the going down of the sun - i. e. as soon as Ahab was dead. The abandonment of the expedition and dispersion of the army on the death of the king is thoroughly Oriental.

The Septuagint version reads 1 Kings 22:36-37, “Every man to his city, and every man to his own country, for the king is dead: And they came to Samaria,” etc.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 36. Every man to his city — It appears that the Israelites and Jews maintained the fight the whole of the day; but when at evening the king died, and this was known, there was a proclamation made, probably with the consent of both Syrians and Israelites, that the war was over. Ahab being dead, his subjects did not choose to contend for Ramoth-gilead; so the Israelites went to their own cities, and the Syrians to their own country.