Bible Game · Chapter 15
Micaiah and the Four Hundred Prophets
King Ahab asks the prophets whether to go to war. Four hundred cry with one voice, 'Go up and win.' Only Micaiah says otherwise. Their number and their agreement look like proof of the truth.
Old Testament · 1 Kings 22 · four hundred against one
Unfamiliar words in this case
- prophet — one who received God's word and spoke it plainly to king and people. Not a fortune-teller, but one who names right and wrong without fear. Also called a seer.
The painting in this case
Caspar Luyken · 1712 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam — Caspar carried on the biblical print series begun by his father, the engraver Jan Luyken. Before two thrones a whole company cries out with one voice, and a single man steps forward with his hand raised — for four hundred voices in unison are not four hundred witnesses, but one witness copied over.
A Bible detective game: read the Hebrew and Greek alongside the text, cross-examine the witnesses, and work out what actually happened. Not a quiz you memorize — you win by reading, weighing, and judging. Free, in Korean and English.
This game makes no theological judgments. Every verdict rests only on the narrative facts the text itself states.
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