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Micaiah

Pronounced my-KAY-uh

boy

✓ In the King James Bible — Yes — Micaiah appears in the King James Bible, including 1 Kings 22:14.

Meaning: "Who is like the LORD?"
Origin: Hebrew

Micaiah means "who is like the LORD?" in Hebrew. He was the courageous prophet who stood alone against 400 false prophets to deliver God's true word to Kings Ahab and Jehoshaphat before the battle of Ramoth-Gilead. When Jehoshaphat asked if there was another prophet to consult, Ahab replied: "There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil." This honest admission reveals both Ahab's awareness of truth and his refusal to accept it. Under pressure from a messenger who urged him to agree with the 400 prophets, Micaiah responded with one of Scripture's boldest declarations: "As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak." He then prophesied Israel's defeat and Ahab's death — and was struck and imprisoned for his honesty. Ahab died exactly as Micaiah predicted, struck by a random arrow in battle. Micaiah's story is the Bible's ultimate portrait of prophetic integrity — one voice of truth against 400 voices of flattery.

Spiritual meaning

Micaiah — 'who is like the LORD?' — chose truth over popularity, integrity over comfort. His lone stand against 400 false prophets teaches that one person with God's word is a majority.

Related verses (KJV)

"And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak."
1 Kings 22:14 (KJV) →
"There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil."
1 Kings 22:8 (KJV) →

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