- ZEDEKIAH, Son of Chenaanah, and a false Prophet of Samaria. As King Ahab was once with Jehoshaphat King of Judah, near the Gate of Samaria,1 deliberating about the War they had undertaken against the City of Ramoth-Gilead; Zedekiah the Son of Chenaanah put Iron Horns upon his Head, and said to Ahab King of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, you shall beat Syria, and toss it up into the Air with these Horns. But the Prophet Micaiah, the Son of Imlah, being sent for, and denouncing the direct contrary to this, Zedekiah came near him, and giving him a Slap on the Face, said to him, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me, to speak to you? Then Micaiah told him, you will see that when you shall be obliged to hide yourself in an inward Chamber. It is not said what became of Zedekiah; but all the Prophecies of Micaiah were proved true by the Event. See his Article.
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1 Kings xxii. 11, 24. In the Year of the World 3107, before Christ 893, before the Vulgar Æra 897. ↩