And the bands of the Moabites invaded. — Rather, And troops of Moabites used to invade. They took advantage of the weakened condition of Israel to revenge the devastation of their country described in 2 Kings 3:25.

At the coming in of the year. — So the Targum and the LXX. The Syriac, Vulg., and Arabic understand,” in that (or, ‘the same’) year.” The preposition has probably fallen out of the Hebrew text: read, běbô shânâh, “when the year came in” — i.e., in the spring. (Comp. 2 Samuel 11:1.)

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