Graphic Bible · Scene 9 of 13
1 Kings 22:34-36
The arrow and the retreat
Micaiah and the Fall of Ahab · 1 Kings 22
Story guide: A random arrow finds the gap in Ahab's armor, and the battle winds down at sunset; the passage does not describe the archer or the battlefield.
Open this scene in the reader →34But a man drew his bow and shot at random, striking the king of Israel through a gap in his armor. The king said to his charioteer, “Turn the chariot around and take me out of the fighting, for I am wounded.”
35The battle intensified that day, and the king was kept upright in his chariot facing the army of Aram. He died that evening, and the blood from his wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot.
36At sunset a cry spread through the camp: “Each man back to his city, each man back to his own land!”
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