1 Kings 22:28

Webster's Bible (1833)

Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me. He said, Hear, you peoples, all of you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מִיכָ֔יְהוּ אִם־שׁ֤וֹב תָּשׁוּב֙ בְּשָׁל֔וֹם לֹֽא־דִבֶּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה בִּ֑י וַיֹּ֕אמֶר שִׁמְע֖וּ עַמִּ֥ים כֻּלָּֽם׃

Transliteration

wə-yōʾmer Mîkāyəhû, if šôb̄ tāšûb̄ in-šālôm, lōʾ-dibber YHWH in-me. wə-yōʾmer, šimʿû ʿammîm all-of-them.

Grammar Details

• *wə-yōʾmer*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3ms - and he said
• *Mîkāyəhû*: proper noun - Micaiah
• *šôb̄*: qal infinitive absolute - returning
• *tāšûb̄*: qal imperfect 2ms - you return
• *šālôm*: masculine singular noun - peace
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *dibber*: piel perfect 3ms - he has spoken
• *YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *šimʿû*: qal imperative mp - hear
• *ʿammîm*: masculine plural noun - peoples
• *kullām*: masculine plural noun with 3mp suffix - all of them

Word Meanings

• *šôb̄ tāšûb̄*: surely return/indeed return [emphatic construction]
• *šālôm*: peace/safety/welfare/prosperity
• *dibber*: spoken/declared/commanded
• *šimʿû*: hear/listen/obey/heed
• *ʿammîm*: peoples/nations/tribes

Referenced Verses

• Mic 1:2 : 2 Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: And let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, The Lord from his holy temple.
• Num 16:29 : 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn't sent me.
• Deut 18:20-22 : 20 But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. 21 If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken? 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.
• 1 Kgs 18:21-24 : 21 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him not a word. 22 Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men. 23 Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under. 24 You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh; and the God who answers by fire, let him be God." All the people answered, "It is well said."
• 1 Kgs 18:36-37 : 36 It happened at the time of the offering of the [evening] offering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. 37 Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and [that] you have turned their heart back again.
• 2 Kgs 1:10 : 10 Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
• 2 Kgs 1:12 : 12 Elijah answered them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. The fire of God came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
• 2 Chr 18:27 : 27 Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me. He said, Hear, you peoples, all of you.
• Isa 44:26 : 26 who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places of it;
• Jer 28:8-9 : 8 The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. 9 The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall happen, then shall the prophet be known, that Yahweh has truly sent him.
• Amos 3:1 : 1 Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
• Mark 7:14-15 : 14 He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand. 15 There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
• Mark 12:37 : 37 Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" The common people heard him gladly.
• Acts 13:10-11 : 10 and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? 11 Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!" Immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.