מלכים א 22:24

Hebrew Modern Translation

ויגש צדקיהו בן כנענה ויכה את מיכיהו על הלחי ויאמר אי זה עבר רוח יהוה מאתי לדבר אותך׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
ויגש צדקיהו בן כנענה ויכה את מיכיהו על הלחי ויאמר אי זה עבר רוח יהוה מאתי לדבר אותך

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
וַיִּגַּשׁ֙ צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּ בֶֽן־כְּנַעֲנָ֔ה וַיַּכֶּ֥ה אֶת־מִיכָ֖יְהוּ עַל־הַלֶּ֑חִי וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אֵי־זֶ֨ה עָבַ֧ר רֽוּחַ־יְהוָ֛ה מֵאִתִּ֖י לְדַבֵּ֥ר אוֹתָֽךְ ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
וַיִּגַּשׁ צִדְקִיָּהוּ בֶֽן־כְּנַעֲנָה וַיַּכֶּה אֶת־מִיכָיְהוּ עַל־הַלֶּחִי וַיֹּאמֶר אֵי־זֶה עָבַר רֽוּחַ־יְהוָה מֵאִתִּי לְדַבֵּר אוֹתָֽךְ ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Zedekiah: 1 Kings 22:11

smote Micaiah: 2 Chronicles 18:23, 2 Chronicles 18:24, Isaiah 50:5, Isaiah 50:6, Lamentations 3:30, Micah 5:1, Mark 14:65, Mark 15:19, Mark 15:20, John 15:18, John 15:20, Acts 23:2

Which way: Jeremiah 28:10, Jeremiah 28:11, Jeremiah 29:26, Jeremiah 29:27, Matthew 26:68, Matthew 27:42, Matthew 27:43

Reciprocal: Job 15:11 - is there Job 16:10 - they have smitten Job 26:4 - whose spirit Proverbs 9:7 - General Proverbs 26:5 - a fool Jeremiah 18:18 - for the Jeremiah 23:18 - who Ezekiel 13:9 - and ye Matthew 5:39 - whosoever Matthew 21:35 - General Matthew 26:67 - and others Luke 6:26 - so Luke 20:10 - beat John 7:52 - Art Acts 13:8 - withstood Hebrews 11:36 - and scourgings

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near,.... Stepped in haste and passion from the place where he was:

and smote Micaiah on the cheek; in contempt of him, and to show his indignation at what he said; this he did in open court, before two kings; one he believed would favour and screen him in this lawless action, and the other, out of his own jurisdiction, had not courage and presence of mind to resent it:

and said, which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee? hereby boasting that he had the Spirit of the Lord, and was directed by him in what he said, and still remained with him, and could not possibly go to Micaiah, and suggest the very reverse; and therefore pertly asks him which way the spirit went, intimating that it was impossible he could steer a course contrary to himself.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Smote Micaiah on the cheek - As Micaiah had been brought from prison 1 Kings 22:26, it is probable that his hands were bound.

The prophet, thus standing before the great ones of the earth, bound and helpless, bearing testimony to the truth, and for his testimony smitten on the face by an underling, whose blow he receives without either shame or anger, is a notable type of our Lord before Caiaphas suffering the same indignity.

Which way ... - Zedekiah’s meaning may perhaps be expounded as follows:

“The Spirit of Yahweh certainly came to me, and inspired me with the answer which I gave. If He afterward went to thee, as thou sayest that He did, perhaps thou canst tell us - as all the secrets of the invisible world are, thou pretendest, open to thee - which way He took.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 24. Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me — This is an expression of as great insolence as the act was of brutal aggression. "Did the Spirit of the Lord, who rests solely upon me, condescend to inspire thee? Was it at this ear [where he smote him] that it entered, in order to hold communion with thee?" Josephus tells an idle rabbinical tale about this business, which is as unworthy of repetition as it is of credit. See his Antiq. of the Jews, book viii., c. 10.