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1 Kungaboken 22:3
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Ramoth: 1 Kings 4:13, Deuteronomy 4:43, Joshua 20:8
still: Heb. silent from taking it, Judges 16:2, 2 Samuel 19:10, *marg.
Reciprocal: Joshua 13:26 - Ramathmizpeh Joshua 21:38 - Ramoth 2 Kings 5:5 - and took 2 Kings 8:28 - Ramothgilead 2 Kings 9:14 - kept Ramothgilead 1 Chronicles 6:80 - Ramoth 2 Chronicles 22:5 - Ramothgilead Jeremiah 21:2 - Inquire Jeremiah 25:3 - thirteenth
Gill's Notes on the Bible
(And the king of Israel said unto his servants,.... His nobles, those of his privy council, his ministers of state; or "had said" n, some little time before Jehoshaphat came:
know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours a city of refuge beyond Jordan, in the tribe of Gad, and so of course must belong to the kingdom of Israel, of which see Joshua 20:8
and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?) neither demand it, nor take any measures to oblige him to deliver it up; representing it as a great omission, and as a piece of negligence and slothfulness, or cowardice.
n ויאמר "et dixerat", Junius & Tremellius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
By the terms of Ahab’s covenant with Ben-hadad, Ramoth in Gilead ought, long ere this, to have been restored 1 Kings 20:34. Hence, the claim “is ours,” i. e., “it belongs to us of right though the Syrians still hold possession of it.”
