Teks -- 1 Kings 22:3 (NET)

22:3 The king of Israel said to his servants, “Surely you recognize that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us, though we are hesitant to reclaim it from the king of Syria.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 1Ki 22:3 - Is ours

Belongeth to us by right. both by God's donation, and by our last agreement with Ben - hadad, 1Ki 20:34, which yet he refuseth to deliver up.

JFB: 1Ki 22:3-8 - Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours

A Levitical and free town on the north border of Gad (Deu 4:43; Jos 21:38), on the site of the present Salt Lake, in the province of Belka. It lay within the territories of the Israelitish monarch, and was unjustly alienated; but whether it was one of the cities usurped by the first Ben-hadad, which his son had promised to restore, or was retained for some other reasons, the sacred historian has not mentioned. In the expedition which Ahab meditated for the recovery of this town, the aid of Jehoshaphat was asked and promised (see 2Ch 18:3). Previous to declaring hostilities, it was customary to consult the prophets (see on 1Sa 28:8); and Jehoshaphat having expressed a strong desire to know the Lord's will concerning this war, Ahab assembled four hundred of his prophets. These could not be either the prophets of Baal or of Ashteroth (1Ki 18:19), but seem (1Ki 22:12) to have been false prophets, who conformed to the symbolic calf-worship of Jehovah. Being the creatures of Ahab, they unanimously predicted a prosperous issue to the war. But dissatisfied with them, Jehoshaphat inquired if there was any true prophet of the Lord. Ahab agreed, with great reluctance, to allow Micaiah to be summoned. He was the only true prophet then to be found residing in Samaria, and he had to be brought out of prison (1Ki 22:26), into which, according to JOSEPHUS, he had been cast on account of his rebuke to Ahab for sparing the king of Syria.

TSK: 1Ki 22:3 - Ramoth // still

Ramoth : 1Ki 4:13; Deu 4:43; Jos 20:8

still : Heb. silent from taking it, Jdg 16:2; 2Sa 19:10 *marg.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 1Ki 22:3 - Is ours

Is ours i.e. belongeth to us by right, both by God’ s donation, and designation of it for a city of refuge, Jos 21:38 , and by our last agreement with Ben-hadad, 1Ki 20:31 , which he refuseth to deliver up to us upon our demand.

Haydock: 1Ki 22:3 - Syria

Syria. Benadad had not restored it; either because he no longer regarded his treaty, or because the city had not been taken by his father. (Calmet)

Gill: 1Ki 22:3 - (And the king of Israel said unto his servants // know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours // and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?)

(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 Jos 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.