* shall we go.
  6 
 * Go and prosper.
   This was strong irony; they were the precise words of the
   false prophets; but were spoken by Micaiah in such a tone and
   manner as at once shewed Ahab that he did not believe, but
   ridiculed these words of uncertainty.  The reply of the
   Delphian oracle to Crosesus was as ambiguous as that returned
   to Pyrrhus, {Croesus Halym penetrans magnam pervertet opum
   vim,} "If Croesus crosses the Halys, he will overthrow a great
   empire."  This he understood of the empire of Cyrus; the event
   proved it to be his own:  he was deluded, yet the oracle
   maintained its credit.

  18:27  Jud 10:14  2Ki 3:13  2Ch 18:14  Ec 11:9  Mt 26:45