Charles Ellicott Commentary 1 Kings 22:27

"and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace." — 1 Kings 22:27 (ASV)

Bread of affliction ... . This is a command of severe treatment, as well as scanty fare. Ahab’s pretense of disbelief—which his subsequent conduct shows to be merely pretense—simply elicits a plainer and sterner prediction, accompanied moreover, if our text is correct, by an appeal to the whole assembly to bear witness to it. We know nothing of Micaiah’s fate; but it is hard to suppose that his bold and defiant testimony could escape the extreme penalty of death, when Ahab’s fall gave an opportunity for the revival of the ruthlessness of Jezebel.