And Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left; and the LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?' And one said one thing, and another said another. Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, 'I will entice him.' And the LORD said to him, 'By what means?' And he said, 'I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And he said, 'You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.' Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the LORD has declared disaster for you.What follows is predictable, for it was predicted (even Ahab heard it!). Ahab is struck in battle by a certain man who "drew his bow at random" (1 Kgs. 22:34). Random ha! The phrase "at random" is the ESV's effort to get across the Hebrew idiom "in his innocence/integrity" (so also the NIV, NAB, and NASB). The Holman Christian Standard Bible translates the phrase "without taking special aim." Those who've read the prophesy know for certain that this all, "random" arrows included, came to pass "according to the word of the LORD" (1 Kgs. 22:38). That is, Ahab believed the prophecy from the lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets (1 Kgs. 22:12, 22), rushed off into battle at Ramoth-gilead (1 Kgs. 22:29), and died (1 Kgs. 22:37), according to the word of the LORD.
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, YHWH is his memorial name, this God, he is the God of bows drawn at random, bows that strike kings according to the prophetic word, which prophetic word revealed that YHWH's "declared disaster" (1 Kgs. 22:23) against a certain king included the means of a lying spirit in the mouth of the king's prophets.
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