* the word of the Lord.
   "A great clamour," says Dr. Kennicott, "has been raised
   against this part of history, on account of God's denouncing
   sentence on the true prophet by the mouth of the false
   prophet; but if we examine with attention the original words
   here, they will be found to signify either he who brought him
   back, or, whom he had brought back; for the very same words,
   {asher heshivo,} occur again, ver. 23, where they are now
   translated, whom he had brought back; and where they cannot be
   translated otherwise.  This being the case, we are at liberty
   to consider the words of the Lord as delivered to the true
   prophet, thus brought back; and then the sentence is
   pronounced by God himself, calling to him out of heaven, as in
   Ge 22:11.  And that this doom was thus pronounced by God, not
   by the false prophet, we are assured in ver. 26.  'The Lord
   hath delivered him unto the lion, according to the word of the
   Lord, which He spake unto him.'  Josephus [and also the
   Arabic] asserts, that the sentence was declared by God to the
   true prophet."

  Nu 23:5,16  24:4,16-24  Mt 7:22  Joh 11:51  1Co 13:2