Micaiah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Micaiah
     who is like Jehovah?, the son of Imlah, a faithful prophet of
     Samaria (1 Kings 22:8-28). Three years after the great battle
     with Ben-hadad (20:29-34), Ahab proposed to Jehoshaphat, king of
     Judah, that they should go up against Ramoth-Gilead to do battle
     again with Ben-hadad. Jehoshaphat agreed, but suggested that


     inquiry should be first made "at the word of Jehovah." Ahab's
     prophets approved of the expedition; but Jehoshaphat, still
     dissatisfied, asked if there was no other prophet besides the
     four hundred that had appeared, and was informed of this
     Micaiah. He was sent for from prison, where he had been
     confined, probably on account of some prediction disagreeable to
     Ahab; and he condemned the expedition, and prophesied that it
     would end, as it did, in disaster. We hear nothing further of
     this prophet. Some have supposed that he was the unnamed prophet
     referred to in 1 Kings 20:35-42.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Micaiah, who is like to God?