6. The father of Abdon (2 Chron. xxxiv, 20) ; else- where called MiCHAiAH, the father of Achbor (2 Kings xxii, 12).
7. A Levite of the descendants of Asaph (1 Chron. ix, 15) ; elsewhere properly called Micha (Neh. xi, 17, 22).
Micai'ah, the prevailing form of the name of sev- eral persons (one a Levite, 2 Chron. xiii, 2), written with considerable diversity in the original and in the an- cient translations, as well as the Aiith. Vers, (properly, for Hcb. Mikaijah', IT^S'^'O, irho is like Jehovah ? 2 Kings xxii, 12; Sept. Mtxaioc. Vnli;-. .Ui,-//ii, Auth.Vers. "iMi- chaiah," Neh. xii, 35, i\I(\(((((, Mirlnija, " Michaiah ;" Neh. xii, 41, MixaiaQ, Mii-Iioii, •• ;\Iii.]iaiah;" Jer. xxvi, 18, i\I(Ya(«c, Mickceas, "Micah;" paragogically, Heb. Mikah'yehu, ^lil^Dip ; Judg. xvii, 1, 4, Mt\;a, Michas, "jri.'ali;" 1 Kinn-s xxii. 8. 9. 13. U, 1"), 24, 25, 20, 28, Mi- Xa>„r, Mirlnnis. - .Micaiali ;" 2 ( 'liroii. xviii, 7, 8, 12, 13, 23, 2 t, 25. ■_':, Ml Y«u(r, Mlrlia ,is. •■.Micaiah ;" Jer. xxxvi, 11, 13, Mixaiac, Mic/iieas, •' Michaiah ;" fully, Heb. Mi- kaya'hu, ^H^S'^p ; 2 Chron. xiii, 2, Maaxa, Michaja, " Michaiah ;" 2 Chron. xvii, 7, Mixa'Of,"? Michceas, "Mi- chaiah ;" contracted, Heb. Mikah', HD^'C ; Judg. xvii, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, and xviii, 2, 3, 4, 13,'l5,'l8, 22, 23, 2G, 27, 31, Mi^a, Michas, " Micah ;" 1 Chron. v, 5, and viii, 34, 35, and ix, 40, 41, and xxiii, 20, Mt\'«, Jlir/ms. " Mi- cah ;" 1 Chron. xxiv, 24, 25, Mi^a, Mic/ia, "^Michah;" 2 Chron. xviii, 14, Mix«i«e, Michceas, " Micaiah ;" 2 Chron. xxxiv, 20, Mixaia, Micha, ''Micah;" Jer. xxvi, 18, M[Y«'rtC V- !■• Mt,Y««C and Mi/y"'«C, Michceas, " Mi- cah ;" Micah i, 1, MixaiaQ, Michceas, "Micah;" by Chaldaism, Mika', N=^:2 ; 2 Sam. ix, 12, and Neh. x, 11, and xi, 17, Miy", Micha, " Micha ;" 1 Chron. ix, 15, M ixa, Micha, " Micah ;" Neh. xi, 22, M( y«, Michas, " Mi- cha" J. The only person invariably thus called was the son of Imla, and a prophet of Samaria (1 Kings xxii, 1- 35 ; 2 Chron. xviii). B.C. 895. The following abstract of the narrative concerning him is chiefly from Smith's Dictioyiarji of the Bible, s. v. Three years after the great battle with Benhadad, king of Syria, in which the ex- traordinary number of 100,000 Syrian soldiers is said to have been slain, without reckoning the 27,000 who, it is asserted, were killed by the falling of the wall at Aphek, Ahab proposed to Jehoshaphat,king of Judah,that they should jointly go up to battle against Ramoth-Gilead : which Benhadad was, apparently, bound by treaty to restore to Ahab. Jehoshaphat, whose son Jehoram had married Athaliah, Ahab's daughter, assented in cordial words to the proposal ; but suggested that they should first " inquire at the word of Jehovah." Accordingh', Ahab assembled 400 prophets, while, in an open space at the gate of the city of Samaria, he and Jehoshaphat sat in royal robes to meet and consult them. " That these were, however, no true prophets of Jehovah, is evident from their being afterwards emphatically designated Ahab's prophets, in contradistinction to the Lord's (ver. 22, 23). It is evident also from the suspicion created in the mind of Jehoshaphat respecting their character by their manner and appearance ; for, after they had all spoken, and as having yet to learn the real pur- pose of heaven, Jehoshaphat asked whether there was not yet a prophet of Jehovah. In consequence of this request jNIicaiah was mentioned by Ahab, but with the notification that he hated him, ' for he doth not proph- esy good concerning me, but evil' (ver. 8); which, in the circumstances, cannot be regarded otherwise than as a further proof of the essential difference between the act- ual position of this man and the others who assumed