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Verse 2 Kings 3:27. _TOOK HIS ELDEST SON_] The rabbins account for
this horrible sacrifice in the following way:-
When the king of Moab found himself so harassed, and the royal city
on the point of...
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Compare the marginal reference. Mesha, when his sally failed, took, as
a last resource, his first born son, and offered him as a
burnt-offering to appease the manifest anger of his god Chemosh, and
ob...
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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 ...
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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...
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OFFERED HIM. offered him up. App-43.
A BURNT OFFERING. App-43. Recording. fact on which Mesha is silent on
the Moabite stone. App-54.
THE WALL. i.e., the higher of the two. Hebrew. _homah_ not _kir_...
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The Moabites attack the allied armies, but are defeated. The king of
Moab sacrifices his eldest son (Not in Chronicles)...
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_his eldest son_ i.e. his own eldest son, not as has been explained by
some, the eldest son of the Edomite king. His thought was to offer
such a sacrifice as would be most acceptable. Hence he gave wh...
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DISCOURSE: 361
THE KING OF MOAB SACRIFICES HIS SON
2 Kings 3:27. _Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in
his stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall._
GOD delights...
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TOOK HIS ELDEST SON—AND OFFERED HIM FOR A BURNT-OFFERING UPON THE
WALL.— Not only the holy Scriptures, but several heathen writers,
assure us, that in cases of great extremity it was customary among
v...
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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...
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_THEN HE TOOK HIS ELDEST SON THAT SHOULD HAVE REIGNED IN HIS STEAD,
AND OFFERED HIM FOR A BURNT OFFERING UPON THE WALL. AND THERE WAS
GREAT INDIGNATION AGAINST ISRAEL: AND THEY DEPARTED FROM HIM, AND...
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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.'...
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_FOR_ A BURNT OFFERING] presumably to Chemosh, the Moabite deity.
Human sacrifices in ancient times prevailed amongst most Semitic
nations; but the offering of a son or daughter must generally have
be...
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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...
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THEN. — _And_.
HIS ELDEST SON — _i.e._, the despairing king of Moab took his own
son and heir.
OFFERED HIM FOR A BURNT OFFERING. — To Chemosh, without doubt, by
way of appeasing that wrath of the god...
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וַ יִּקַּח֩ אֶת ־בְּנֹ֨ו הַ בְּכֹ֜ור
אֲשֶׁר
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and
(r) offered him [for] a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was
great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him,...
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Wall, to Chamos, the idol of Moab; (Menochius) or to Moloc, to appease
the wrath of the gods. Horrible blindness! The pagans believed, that
the most precious thing ought to be sacrificed in very immin...
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REFLECTIONS
I stay not to remark all the interesting things which this chapter
contains; otherwise I might charge it upon my soul to admire and
adore, what I have read of grace and mercy transcending...
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Observe the sad state of an idolatrous mind. Human sacrifices to
devils are among the abominations. Thus the great enemy of souls to
confound, as he thought, the divine institution of sacrifices in hi...
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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...
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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...
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THEN HE TOOK HIS ELDEST SON, THAT SHOULD HAVE REIGNED IN HIS
STEAD,.... Not the eldest son of the king of Edom, whom the king of
Moab had in his hands before, which made the king of Edom the more
will...
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Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and
offered him [for] a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great
indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and...
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_He took his eldest son and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the
walls_ “Not only the Holy Scriptures, but several heathen writers
assure us, that in case of great extremity, it was customary amo...
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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...
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Then he, the king of Moab, TOOK HIS ELDEST SON THAT SHOULD HAVE
REIGNED IN HIS STEAD, the heir apparent to the throne, AND OFFERED HIM
FOR A BURNT OFFERING UPON THE WALL, sacrificing him to the Moabit...
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THE DEFEAT OF MOAB...
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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...
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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...
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HIS ELDEST SON; either, first, The king of Edom's son; whom in this
eruption he took, and then sacrificed. Compare AMOS 2:1. But, first,
That place speaks of the _king_, not of _the king's son_; and o...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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_Then he took his eldest son _. .. _ and offered him for a burnt
offering._
A KING’S SACRIFICE
The King of Moab’s sacrifice a picture of the world’s sacrifices.
The King of Moab was besieged in Kirha...
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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)....
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 3:27 Just as Israel seemed to have defeated
him, Mesha offered his son as BURNT OFFERING ON THE WALL. As a
consequence, THERE CAME GREAT WRATH AGAINST ISRAEL. This d
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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...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 3:1
THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF JEHORAM'S REIGN OVER ISRAEL; HIS WAR WITH
MOAB....
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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...
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1 Kings 20:13; 1 Kings 20:28; 1 Kings 20:43; 1 Samuel 14:36;...
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His son — Or rather, his own son: whom he sacrificed; partly, to
obtain the favour of his god, according to the manner of the
Phoenicians and other people in publick calamities; and partly, to
oblige...