Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadMatthew Poole Commentary - 1 Kings 22:19 - 22:19
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Because thou givest credit to thy false prophets, and distrustest my words, as if they were but the suggestions of my own fancy, and hatred of thy person, I will give thee a distinct and true account of the whole matter, in God’s name and presence.
I saw the Lord, by the eyes of my mind; for he could not see the Lord with bodily eyes.
The host of heaven, i.e. the angels, who are oft called God’s host or hosts, because of their great number, excellent order, and constant readiness to attend upon God, and to execute his commands. See Gen_2:1 Psa_103:21 148:2. These angels were both good and bad; the one possibly on his right, the other on his left hand. Nor is it strange that the devils are called the host of heaven, if you consider, first, That their original seat was in heaven, and men in Scripture are oft called by the name of the place from whence they came. Secondly, That the name of heaven is oft given to all that part of the world which is above the earth, and among the rest to the air, as Gen_1:20 7:11 8:2 27:28 Deu_4:11 11:11, where the devil’s residence and dominion lies, Eph_2:2; and that both Michael and his angels, and the dragon and his angels, are said to be and to wage war in heaven, Rev_12:7, i.e. either the air, or the church. And this place is not to be understood as if Micaiah had seen with his bodily eyes the Lord and his angels sitting in the third heaven; but that he saw a representation of the Divine presence in the air, attended with good and bad angels.
Standing by him, in the posture of ministers, to receive and execute his commands.