Kir — haraseth — This was the royal city of the Moabites, into which the remnant of the Moabites were gathered, where also their king was with them. The stones — The walls and buildings of this city only were left; their whole country being destroyed. The slingers — Such as slung great stones against the walls to break them down, according to the manner of those times. Made breaches in the walls, by which they might enter the city, and take it.
Verse 2 Kings 3:25. _ON EVERY GOOD PIECE OF LAND_] On all cultivated ground, and especially fields that were sown. _ONLY IN KIR-HARASETH_] This was the royal city of the Moabites, and, as we learn f...
Kir-Haraseth, also Kir-Hareseth, is identified almost certainly with the modern Kerak, a strong city on the highland immediately east of the southern part of the Dead Sea. It was the great fortress of...
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 ...
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 kin...
KIR-HARASETH. The city of the hill. The capital of Moab. STONES [in the wall] thereof. Supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis._ App-6. HOWBEIT, &C.. and [till] the slingers should surround and smite it....
The Moabites attack the allied armies, but are defeated. The king of Moab sacrifices his eldest son (Not in Chronicles)...
_cast every man his stone_ Thus ensuring that the ground should be made, for a long time to come, useless for the pasturage of flocks. _only in Kirharaseth left_they _the stones thereof_ R.V. UNTIL IN...
B. THE JOINT CAMPAIGN AGAINST MOAB 3:4-27 The one major effort of Jehoram's twelve-year reign was his effort to resubjugate Moab. In this effort Jehoram was able to enlist the services of Jehoshaphat...
_AND THEY BEAT DOWN THE CITIES, AND ON EVERY GOOD PIECE OF LAND CAST EVERY MAN HIS STONE, AND FILLED IT; AND THEY STOPPED ALL THE WELLS OF WATER, AND FELLED ALL THE GOOD TREES: ONLY IN KIRHARASETH LEF...
3:25 the (c-38) Lit. 'her.'...
Filled it] thereby rendering it useless for tillage or pasture. KIR-HARASETH] probably the Kir of Isaiah 15:1 and the Kir-heres of Jeremiah 48:31; Jeremiah 48:36....
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.'...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 3 THE WAR AGAINST MOAB V1 Ahab’s son Joram became the king of *Israel in Samaria. That happened in the 18th year when...
AND THEY BEAT DOWN THE CITIES. — Rather, _And the cities they would overthrow_, describing what happened again and again. ON EVERY... FILLED IT. — Literally, _And every good plot, they would cast eac...
וְ הֶ עָרִ֣ים יַהֲרֹ֡סוּ וְ כָל ־חֶלְקָ֣ה
_THE INVASION OF MOAB_ 2 Kings 3:4 "What reinforcement we may gain from hope, If not, what resolution from despair." -MILTON, "Paradise Lost, " 1:190 AHAZIAH, as Elijah had warned him, never recove...
MESHA'S DEFEAT AND DESPERATE SACRIFICE 2 Kings 3:13 Jehoshaphat, though erring, was still God's child, and deliverance came to him. The heights of our senseless folly and the depths of our waywardnes...
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 ag...
And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in (q) Kirharaseth...
CHAPTER III. _ Brick walls. It was the proper name of the city of the Moabites. In Hebrew, Kir-Charaseth. (Challoner) --- Isaias xv., and xvi. 7. It was also called Ar, or Arcopolis. --- Remained. He...
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, altoge...
However, the next chapter (2 Kings 3:1-27) brings us at once into earthly circumstances. "Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of J...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 3 AND 4. In the following chapter we enter into the historical part of Elisha's ministry. Jehoram goes to war; and, although less wicked than his father, the...
AND THEY BEAT DOWN THE CITIES,.... Demolished the walls of them, and houses in them, wherever they came: AND ON EVERY GOOD PIECE OF LAND CAST EVERY MAN HIS STONE, AND FILLED IT; which they had taken...
And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left...
_They stopped all the wells of water_, &c. These, in all probability, are hyperbolical expressions, signifying the great devastation which they made. _Only in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof...
1 Iehorams reigne. 4 Mesha rebelleth. 6 Iehoram, with Iehoshaphat, and the king of Edom, being distressed for want of water, by Elisha obtaineth water, and promise of victory. 21 The Moabites decei...
And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone and filled it, rendering it unfit for bearing grain; AND THEY STOPPED ALL THE WELLS OF WATER, AND FELLED ALL THE...
THE DEFEAT OF MOAB...
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 the i...
ONLY IN KIRHARASETH LEFT THEY THE STONES THEREOF: _ Heb._ until he left the stones thereof in Kirharaseth...
20-27 It is a blessing to be favoured with the company of those who have power with God, and can prevail by their prayers. A kingdom may be upheld and prosper, in consequence of the fervent prayers o...
CAST EVERY MAN HIS STONE: the stones which haply had been with great care and pains picked out of the land, and laid in heaps after the manner, they dispersed again, and slew the people, who should ha...
2 Kings 3:25 destroyed H2040 (H8799) cities H5892 man H376 threw H7993 (H8686) stone H68 good H2896 piece...
1). THE REIGN OF JEHORAM KING OF ISRAEL C. 852-841 BC: WAR WITH MOAB (2 KINGS 3:1). The interlude of Elisha's succession to Elijah having taken place in preparation for the future, the narrative now r...
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 KINGS 3:15). YHWH's reply indicated that they had to...
CONTENTS: Accession of Jehoram over Israel. Moab rebels against Israel. Elisha's reproof of alliance between Jehoshaphat and Jehoram. Defeat of Moabites. CHARACTERS: God, Jehoram, Jehoshaphat, Mesha,...
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 sevent...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 3:1 Like Elijah before him, Elisha becomes involved in politics. Here, he is consulted about a military campaign (compare 1 Kings 22:1)....
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 in some q...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 3:1 THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF JEHORAM'S REIGN OVER ISRAEL; HIS WAR WITH MOAB....
Now chapter 3. Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, and he reigned for twelve years (2 Kings 3:1). So Jehoram, t...
2 Chronicles 32:4; 2 Kings 3:19; 2 Samuel 8:2; Deuteronomy 2:9;...