2 Kings 3:7

_AND HE WENT AND SENT TO JEHOSHAPHAT THE KING OF JUDAH, SAYING, THE KING OF MOAB HATH REBELLED AGAINST ME: WILT THOU GO WITH ME AGAINST MOAB TO BATTLE? AND HE SAID, I WILL GO UP: I AM AS THOU ART, MY PEOPLE AS THY PEOPLE, AND MY HORSES AS THY HORSES._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

6-19 The king of Israel laments their distress, and the danger they were in. He called these kings together, yet he charges it upon Providence. Thus the foolishness of man perverteth his way, and then his heart fretteth against the Lord, Proverbs 19:3. It was well that Jehoshaphat inquired of the Lord now, but it had been much better if he had done it before he engaged in this war. Good men sometimes neglect their duty, till necessity and affliction drive them to it. Wicked people often fare the better for the friendship and society of the godly. To try their faith and obedience, Elisha bids them make the valley full of pits to receive water. Those who expect God's blessings, must dig pools for the rain to fill, as in the valley of Baca, and thus make even that a well, Psalms 84:6. We need not inquire whence the wa...

Verse 2 Kings 3:7. _MY PEOPLE AS THY PEOPLE_] We find that Jehoshaphat maintained the same friendly intercourse with the _son_, as he did with the _father_. See 1 Kings 22:4....

The close alliance between the two kingdoms still subsisted. Jehoram therefore sends confidently to make the same request with respect to Moab that his father had made two years before with respect to Syria (marginal reference). Jehoshaphat consented at once, notwithstanding that his former compliance had drawn upon him the rebuke of a prophet 2 Chronicles 19:2. Perhaps Jehoram’s removal of the Baal-worship 2 Kings 3:2 weighed with him. He had himself been attacked by the Moabites in the preceding year; and though the attempt had failed, Jehoshaphat would feel that it might be renewed, and that it was important to seize the opportunity of weakening his enemy which now offered itself....

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 3:1 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 ISRAEL IN SAMARIA THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF JEHOSHAPHAT KING OF JUDAH. This note of time is not quite in accordance with the chronology of 1 Kings, which gives Jehoshaphat a reign of twenty-five years (1 Kings 22:42), Ahab one of twenty-two years ...

AND HE WENT AND SENT TO JEHOSHAPHAT THE KING OF JUDAH, SAYING, THE KING OF MOAB HATH REBELLED AGAINST ME,.... By refusing to pay him tribute: WILT THOU GO UP WITH ME AGAINST MOAB TO BATTLE? AND HE SAID, I WILL GO UP; which he agreed to, partly to encourage in the reformation of religion which he had begun, and partly to chastise the Moabites for their invasion of his country, 2 Chronicles 20:1. I AM AS THOU ART, MY PEOPLE AS THY PEOPLE, AND MY HORSES AS THY HORSES; the same answer he returned to Ahab, 1 Kings 22:4....

2. JEHORAM, MOAB, AND ELISHA CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Jehoram, King of Israel (2 Kings 3:1)_ 2. Moab's rebellion (2 Kings 3:4) 3. Elisha's message and prediction (2 Kings 3:10) 4. The defeat of Moab (2 Kings 3:21) In chapter 1:17 we read, “And Jehoram reigned in his stead (Ahaziah) in the second year of Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, King of Judah.” (He was associated with his father in the government of the kingdom. See 2 Kings 8:27;...

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 last king of Israel. All the others are said to have done evil. The war with Moab is the subject of the famous inscription of Mesha discovered in 1868 (pp. 34, 69). On this Mesha states that Omri occupied the land of Mehedebah (Medeba, Numbers 21:30; Joshua 13:9; Isaiah 15:2) his days, half his son's days, forty years. In Kings it is specially said that Mesha's rebellion was after the death of Ahab. Omri and Ahab together according to Kings reigned on

I AM, &C. Compare 1 Kings 22:4....

_And he went and sent_ This Hebrew verb -to go" is not un-frequently placed before another finite verb, without any special sense of moving from a place, but merely to express the idea of -setting about" the act indicated by the following verb. Thus Exodus 2:1, -There _went a man_… and took to wife a daughter of Levi". Cf. also Deuteronomy 31:1, -Moses _went and spake_". _to Jehoshaphat_ The close family alliance existing at the time between the royal families of Israel and Judah made this a not unnatural request. Cf. Ahab's message to king Jehoshaphat (1 Kings 22:4). Jehoshaphat gives to Jehoram almost the same reply which he had given on the previous occasion to his father. _I will go up_ The