2 Kings 3:23

slain. destroyed.

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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 pit...
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...
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 h...
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...
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...
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...
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. Confe...
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 Los...
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 heig...
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...
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 kn...
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 i...
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...
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 co...
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 n...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Defeat of the Moabites. B. C. 895. ...
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...
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 tak...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

D. YHWH's Provision For The Alliance Forces And The Subjugation Of Moab Which Has However An Unfortunate Consequence In Mesha's Child-Sacrifice ( 2...
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 M...
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 tim...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Defeat of Moab
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

and they said, This is blood, a conclusion by no means far-fetched, for they knew that there was no water in the desert; the kings are surely slain,...
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

²³ And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain,d and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.

Related Commentaries of 2 Kings 3:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 3:23