Volume 64: Emily Macarthur [Mrs. James Macarthur] correspondence and other papers, 1838-1879: No. 382
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all their splendid robes & royal ornaments surrounded by all their officers of state & fountainhead prophets prophesizing before them. Jehosaphat asked for a prophet of the Lord, but Ahab hated him, yet sent for him, Poor Micaiah, like all the Lord's prophets was confined, persecuted or driven out of the kingdom & slain; he was sent for & the messenger said to him; spoke as favorable to the King as the other prophets did. But Micaiah said: "what the Lord hath said unto me that will I spake.
Behold poor M -- alone standing before these two Kings, clothed in all the splendour of royalty, seated on their brilliant thrones & surrounded by all their numerous attendants with their courtiers & 400 prophets prophesizing & flattering victory to them. Look at M --- in that situation, in the midst of such an assembly, was he daunted or dazzled