“ And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches. ”
Ditches - Or “pits” Jeremiah 14:3 . They were to dig pits in the broad valley or wady, wherein the water might remain, instead of flowing off down the torrent course.
Reign of Jehoram. War with Moab. The only two kings of Israel on whom the censure pronounced is in any way qualified are Jehoram, the last of the house of Omri, and Hoshea ( 2 Kings 17:2 ), the las...
valley . a dry watercourse. ditches . trenches. Hebrew ditches ditches. Figure of speech Epizeuxi . (App-6). full of.
And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches. Make this valley full of ditches - The word נחל nachal may be translated brook, as it is by the Vulgate and Septuagint. There proba...
And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches. Make this valley full of ditches, х `Aasoh ( H6213 ) hanachal ( H5158 ) hazeh ( H2088 ) geebiym ( H1356...
Jehoram and Elisha. Victory over Moab 1. The eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat ] according to 2 Kings 1:17 , 'in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat.'
Make. — Right (infinitive, equivalent to an energetic imperative). Valley. — Nahal , wady, torrent-bed, gully. According to Thenius, “the brook Zered” of Deuteronomy 2:13 is meant; the presen...
THE INVASION OF MOAB 2 Kings 3:4-27 "What reinforcement we may gain from hope, If not, what resolution from despair." -MILTON, "Paradise Lost, " 1:190 AHAZIAH, as Elijah had warned him, nev...
Mesha's Defeat and Desperate Sacrifice 2 Kings 3:13-27 Jehoshaphat, though erring, was still God's child, and deliverance came to him. The heights of our senseless folly and the depths of our w...
At this point the history goes back and describes the beginning of the war with Moab, to which reference was made at the opening of the book. It was a combined movement of Israel and Judah and Edom a...
I pray the Reader to mark with me the astonishing goodness of the Lord. Surely here, in an eminent degree, that scripture was fulfilled, Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Romans 5:20 ....
And he said, thus saith the Lord, make this valley full of ditches. In which the allied army lay encamped, that they might be ready to receive large quantities of water, sufficient for the whole ar...
And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches. Ver. 16. Make this valley full of ditches, ] Heb., Ditches, ditches, sc., to receive the water which shall fall by a miracle....
Make this valley full of ditches Which may receive the water and retain it, for the use of men and beasts. They that expect God's blessings, must prepare room for them. Ye shall not see wind Any...
JEHORAM, JEHOSHAPHAT AND MOAB (vv.1-27) Jehoram, Ahab's son, reigned, over Israel 12 years and followed the sinful example of Jereboam, though not doing so wickedly as Ahab, for he got rid of th...
The Expedition against Moab; Elisha Consulted. B. C. 895. 6 And king Jehoram went out...
Which may receive the water, and hold it for the use of men and beasts.
1). The Reign of Jehoram king of Israel c. 852-841 BC: War With Moab ( 2 Kings 3:1-27 ). The interlude of Elisha's succession to Elijah having taken place in preparation for the future, the narrat...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 2 Kings 3:4 . An annual tribute on Moab —The custom is common in the East to pay custom or taxes with the products of the land. For a Moabitish king, with rich p...
2 Kings 3:1 . Jehoram began to reign the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat. There is a small difficulty here in regard to the chronology of those times. It is said that Ahaziah began to reign the sev...
And Elisha said unto the King of Israel, What have I to do with thee Aspects of a godly man Elisha was confessedly a godly man of a high type, and these verses reveal him to us in three aspect...
EXPOSITION 2 Kings 3:1-12 THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF JEHORAM 'S REIGN OVER ISRAEL ; HIS WAR WITH MOAB . 2 Kings 3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over...
The Miracle in the Wilderness
2 Kings 4:3 ; Numbers 2:16-18 ; Numbers 2:18