2 Kings 3:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain,d and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil. ”

2 Kings 3:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sun had risen with a ruddy light, as is frequently the case after a storm (compare Matthew 16:3 ), nearly over the Israelite camp, and the pits, deep but with small mouths, gleaming redly thro...
2 Kings 3:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And they said, (o) This [is] blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil. (o) The sudden joy of the wicked is but a preparation for their...
2 Kings 3:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
2 Kings 3:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

slain . destroyed.
2 Kings 3:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil. Therefore, Moab, to the spoil - Thus they came on in a disorderly man...
2 Kings 3:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood: No JFB commentary on these verses.
2 Kings 3:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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.'
2 Kings 3:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The kings are surely slain. — Have surely fought with (or destroyed ) one another . LXX., ἐμαχέσαντο. The supposition was not improbable. Confederates of different races not seldom had been kno...
2 Kings 3:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
2 Kings 3:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
2 Kings 3:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
2 Kings 3:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

No doubt the Lord overruled the minds of the Moabites to this delusion, in supposing what they beheld of the water to be blood. And indeed as they knew no rain had fallen, such an idea was not, altog...
2 Kings 3:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they said, this is blood ,.... They were very confident of it, having no notion of water, there having been no rain for some time; and perhaps it was not usual to see water at any time in this p...
2 Kings 3:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they said, This [is] blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil. Ver. 23. This is blood. ] For water they were confident there coul...
2 Kings 3:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The sun shone upon the water , &c. They stood in such a situation, when they looked at the water, that those rays of the sun which gave a red colour, were reflected from the water to their eyes;...
2 Kings 3:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
2 Kings 3:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Defeat of the Moabites. B. C. 895. 20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the...
2 Kings 3:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They were so highly confident, that they send no scouts, but march thither with their whole army, and that in great disorder; wherein there was also a Divine hand, strengthening them in their mistake...
2 Kings 3:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
2 Kings 3:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 2 Kings 3:23 . This is blood —For the rancour between the kings of Israel and Judah was well known; hence the Moabites supposed they had slaughtered each other i...
2 Kings 3:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
2 Kings 3:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
2 Kings 3:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Defeat of Moab
2 Kings 3:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 20:25 ; 2 Kings 6:18-20 ; 2 Kings 7:6 ; Exodus 15:9 ; Isaiah 10:14 ; Judges 5:30

2 Kings 3:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Kings 3:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Kings 3:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 3:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Kings 3:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Kings 3:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 3:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 3:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Kings 3:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Kings 3:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Kings 3:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 3:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Kings 3:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Kings 3:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Kings 3:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 3:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 3:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Kings 3:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Kings 3:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 3:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Kings 3:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 3:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Kings 3:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Kings 3:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge