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Contemporary English Version

1 Kings 22:1

For the next three years there was peace between Israel and Syria.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jehoshaphat;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Syria;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ben-Hadad;   Jehoshaphat;   Ramoth;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ahab;   Jehoshaphat;   Ramoth-gilead;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat;   Ramoth-Gilead;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahab;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Assyria, History and Religion of;   Bozkath;   False Prophet;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Oracles;   Spirit;   Theocracy;   Zedekiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ben-Hadad;   Jehoshaphat;   Lie, Lying;   Micah, Micaiah;   Ramoth-Gilead, Ramoth in Gilead;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ramothgilead;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Judah the kingdom of;   Ramoth;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'jah;   Mica'iah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elisha;   Gilead (1);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
There was a lull of three years without war between Aram and Israel.
Hebrew Names Version
They continued three years without war between Aram and Yisra'el.
King James Version
And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
English Standard Version
For three years Syria and Israel continued without war.
New Century Version
For three years there was peace between Israel and Aram.
New English Translation
There was no war between Syria and Israel for three years.
Amplified Bible
Aram (Syria) and Israel continued without war for three years.
New American Standard Bible
Now three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they continued three yeere without warre betweene Aram and Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
So they lived for three years without war between Aram and Israel.
Complete Jewish Bible
For three years there was no war between Aram and Isra'el.
Darby Translation
And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
For the next two years there was peace between Israel and Aram.
George Lamsa Translation
AND three years passed without war Between Aram and Israel.
Good News Translation
There was peace between Israel and Syria for the next two years,
Lexham English Bible
They lived three years, and there was no war between Aram and Israel.
Literal Translation
And they continued three years; there was no war between Syria and Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And there passed ouer thre yeares, that there was no warre betwene the Sirians & Israel.
American Standard Version
And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
Bible in Basic English
Now for three years there was no war between Aram and Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they cotinued three yeres without warre betweene Syria & Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they continued three years without war between Aram and Israel.
King James Version (1611)
And they continued three yeeres without warre betweene Syria and Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he rested three years, and there was no war between Syria and Israel.
English Revised Version
And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
Then three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor thre yeeris passiden with out batel bitwixe Sirie and Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
And they sit still three years, there is no war between Aram and Israel,
Update Bible Version
And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
World English Bible
They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
New King James Version
2 Chronicles 18:1-27">[xr] Now three years passed without war between Syria and Israel.
New Living Translation
For three years there was no war between Aram and Israel.
New Life Bible
Three years passed without war between Syria and Israel.
New Revised Standard
For three years Aram and Israel continued without war.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And there passed three years without war between Syria and Israel.
Revised Standard Version
For three years Syria and Israel continued without war.
THE MESSAGE
They enjoyed three years of peace—no fighting between Aram and Israel. In the third year, Jehoshaphat king of Judah had a meeting with the king of Israel. Israel's king remarked to his aides, "Do you realize that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us, and we're sitting around on our hands instead of taking it back from the king of Aram?"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.

Contextual Overview

1 For the next three years there was peace between Israel and Syria. 2 During the third year King Jehoshaphat of Judah went to visit King Ahab of Israel. 3 Ahab asked his officials, "Why haven't we tried to get Ramoth in Gilead back from the Syrians? It belongs to us." 4 Then he asked Jehoshaphat, "Would you go to Ramoth with me and attack the Syrians?" "Just tell me what to do," Jehoshaphat answered. "My army and horses are at your command. 5 But first, let's ask the Lord ." 6 Ahab sent for about four hundred prophets and asked, "Should I attack the Syrians at Ramoth?" "Yes!" the prophets answered. "The Lord will help you defeat them." 7 But Jehoshaphat said, "Just to make sure, is there another of the Lord 's prophets we can ask?" 8 "We could ask Micaiah son of Imlah," Ahab said. "But I hate Micaiah. He always has bad news for me." "Don't say that!" Jehoshaphat replied. 9 Then Ahab sent someone to bring Micaiah as soon as possible. 10 All this time, Ahab and Jehoshaphat were dressed in their royal robes and were seated on their thrones at the threshing place near the gate of Samaria. They were listening to the prophets tell them what the Lord had said.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3104-3107, bc 900-897, 1 Kings 20:34

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:2 - in the third

Cross-References

Genesis 22:7
Isaac said, "Father, we have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?" "My son," Abraham answered, "God will provide the lamb." The two of them walked on, and
Genesis 22:11
But the Lord 's angel shouted from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am!" he answered.
Genesis 22:12
"Don't hurt the boy or harm him in any way!" the angel said. "Now I know that you truly obey God, because you were willing to offer him your only son."
Genesis 22:14
Abraham named that place "The Lord Will Provide." And even now people say, "On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided."
Exodus 3:4
When the Lord saw Moses coming near the bush, he called him by name, and Moses answered, "Here I am."
Exodus 16:4
The Lord said to Moses, "I will send bread down from heaven like rain. Each day the people can go out and gather only enough for that day. That's how I will see if they obey me.
Deuteronomy 8:2
Don't forget how the Lord your God has led you through the desert for the past forty years. He wanted to find out if you were truly willing to obey him and depend on him,
Deuteronomy 8:16
He also gave you manna, a kind of food your ancestors had never even heard about. The Lord was testing you to make you trust him, so that later on he could be good to you.
Deuteronomy 13:3
If the prophet says this, don't listen! The Lord your God will be watching to find out whether or not you love him with all your heart and soul.
Judges 2:22
and I'm going to let those enemies stay. I'll use them to test Israel, because then I can find out if Israel will worship and obey me as their ancestors did.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. From the time that Benhadad made a covenant with Ahab; not three full years, but part of them: it was threatened by Elijah from the Lord, that Ahab's life should go for Benhadad's, because he had let him, go, 1 Kings 22:42, but because of his humiliation, as is thought by Ben Gersom and others, it was respited for those three years; and now an opportunity and occasion would be given for the fulfilment of what was threatened.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Three years - These must be counted from the close of the second campaign of Ben-hadad 1 Kings 20:34. They were not full years, as is evident from the next verse. Probably the first year is that of Ben-hadad’s dismissal after his defeat; the second is a year of actual peace; while the third is that in which Jehoshaphat paid his visit, and the Ramoth-Gilead expedition took place. The pause, here noticed, in the war between Israel and Syria was perhaps the result of a common danger. It was probably in the year following Ben-hadad’s dismissal by Ahab, that the first great Assyrian expedition took place into these parts. Shalmaneser II relates that on his first invasion of southern Syria, he was met by the combined forces of Ben-hadad, Ahab, the king of Hamath, the kings of the Hittites, and others, who gave him battle, but suffered a defeat.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXII

Jehoshaphat King of Judah, and Ahab King of Israel, unite

against the Syrians, in order to recover Ramoth-gilead, 1-4.

They inquire of false prophets, who promise them success.

Micaiah, a true prophet, foretells the disasters of the war,

5-17.

A lying spirit in the mouths of Ahab's prophets persuades Ahab

to go up against Ramoth, 18-29.

The confederate armies are routed, and the king of Israel

slain, 30-36.

Death and burial of Ahab, 37-40.

Character of Jehoshaphat, 41-47.

He makes a fleet in order to go to Ophir for gold, which is

wrecked at Ezion-geber, 48.

His death, 49.

He is succeeded by his son Jehoram, 50.

Ahaziah succeeds his father Ahab, and reigns wickedly, 51, 52.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXII

Verse 1 Kings 22:1. Three years without war — That is, from the time that Ahab made the covenant with Ben-hadad, mentioned 1 Kings 20:34. And probably in that treaty it was stipulated that Ramoth-gilead should be restored to Israel; which not being done, Ahab formed a confederacy with Judah, and determined to take it by force.


 
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