1 Kings 22:39

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.

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the rest: 1 Kings 14:19, 1 Kings 15:23, 1 Kings 15:31, 1 Kings 16:5, 1 Kings 16:20, 1 Kings 16:27

the ivory house: That is, probably, decorated with ivory in such abundance as to merit the appellation of an ivory house. 1 Kings 10:18, 1 Kings 10:22, Psalms 45:8, Ezekiel 27:6, Ezekiel 27:15, Amos 3:15, Amos 6:4

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:45 - Now 2 Kings 1:18 - in the book 2 Kings 15:15 - General Esther 10:2 - all the acts Song of Solomon 7:4 - ivory

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made,.... Which, being a very curious and extraordinary thing, is particularly mentioned; though perhaps it might not be made wholly of ivory, but inlaid with it; we read of ivory houses in Amos 3:15,

and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? in which the acts of his predecessors were recorded, see 1 Kings 14:19 not the Scripture book of Chronicles, for there none of these things are related.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The ivory house - So called from the character of its ornamentation. Ivory was largely used in the ancient world as a covering of wood-work, and seems to have been applied, not only to furniture, but to the doors and walls of houses.

Nothing is known of the cities built by Ahab; but the fact is important as indicating the general prosperity of the country in his time, and his own activity as a ruler. Prosperity, it is plain, may for a while co-exist with causes - such as, the decay of religions - which are sapping the vital power of a nation, and leading it surely, if slowly, to destruction.

The book of the chronicles ... - See above, 1 Kings 14:19; 1Ki 15:31; 1 Kings 16:5, 1 Kings 16:14, 1Ki 16:20, 1 Kings 16:27.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 39. Ivory house — A royal palace which he built in Samaria, decorated with ivory, and hence called the ivory house. Amos the prophet speaks against this luxury, Amos 3:15.