6 others in the registry answer to the name Micaiah. Every Micaiah in the Bible
- verses
- 18
- first named
- 1 Kings 22:8
- last named
- 2 Chronicles 18:27
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Prophet
Description
Who was Micaiah?
Micaiah, also referred to as Micahu, was a prophet who lived during the reign of King Ahab of Israel (1Ki.22; 2Ch.18). When Ahab and King Jehoshaphat of Judah planned to go to war against the Arameans at Ramoth-gilead, they sought the counsel of prophets. While the false prophets assured victory, Micaiah was summoned to provide a true word from the Lord. Initially, Micaiah sarcastically affirmed the false prophets' message, but when pressed by Ahab, he delivered a vision of Israel scattered like sheep without a shepherd, indicating Ahab's impending death (1Ki.22.17; 2Ch.18.16). Micaiah also revealed that the Lord had put a lying spirit in the mouth of the false prophets to entice Ahab to his doom (1Ki.22.19-23; 2Ch.18.18-22). Angered by this prophecy, Ahab ordered Micaiah to be imprisoned and fed only bread and water until his safe return (1Ki.22.26-27; 2Ch.18.25-26). However, Micaiah declared that if Ahab returned safely, then the Lord had not spoken through him (1Ki.22.28; 2Ch.18.27). Ahab disguised himself in battle but was killed by a random arrow, fulfilling Micaiah's prophecy (1Ki.22.29-40; 2Ch.18.28-34). Micaiah's unwavering commitment to speaking the truth, even in the face of opposition and personal risk, stands as an example of a faithful prophet of God.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 13 are drawn. All 13 are listed below.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Micaiah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
18 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Kings (9) and 2 Chronicles (9).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 18, across 2 books. The name is written 19 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources