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Verse 2 Kings 3:10. _THE LORD HATH CALLED THESE THREE KINGS TOGETHER_]
That is, This is a Divine judgment; God has judicially blinded us, and
permitted us to take this journey to our destruction....
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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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_Alas, that_[R.V. FOR] _the Lord hath called_ Thus R.V. conforms to
the rendering of A.V. in verse 13. The lamentation is caused by what
Jehoram thinks will be their fate. And the conjunction, which c...
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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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_SO THE KING OF ISRAEL WENT, AND THE KING OF JUDAH, AND THE KING OF
EDOM: AND THEY FETCHED A COMPASS OF SEVEN DAYS' JOURNEY: AND THERE WAS
NO WATER FOR THE HOST, AND FOR THE CATTLE THAT FOLLOWED THEM....
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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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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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וַ יֹּ֖אמֶר מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל
אֲהָ֕הּ כִּֽי...
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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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AN UNWISE ALLIANCE
2 Kings 3:1
Jehoram's reign over the ten tribes was marked by some measures of
reform. He discountenanced Baal worship; though, in defiance of the
Second Commandment, he clave to J...
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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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Observe the daring impiety of the king of Israel, in charging this
plan of his own upon the Lord. Oh! how disposed the mind of man is to
evil....
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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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AND THE KING OF ISRAEL SAID, ALAS!.... Lamenting their sad case, as
being desperate; and the rather he was the more concerned, as he was
the principal who had drawn the other kings into this affair, t...
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And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these
three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
Ver. 10. _Alas! that the Lord hath called._] _Vox est admirantis et
des...
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_The king of Israel said, Alas_, &c. He did not cry to God for help,
but only bewailed the straits into which they were fallen; which his
own guilt made him imagine God had brought to pass for their
d...
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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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THE MIRACLE IN THE WILDERNESS...
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And the king of Israel, immediately abandoning himself to despair,
SAID, ALAS, THAT THE LORD HATH CALLED THESE THREE KINGS TOGETHER TO
DELIVER THEM INTO THE HAND OF MOAB! Being without faith in Jehova...
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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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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 the...
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So he chargeth his calamity upon God; and not upon himself, whose sins
were the true and proper causes of it....
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2 Kings 3:10 king H4428 Israel H3478 said H559 (H8799) Alas H162 LORD
H3068 called H7121 three H7969 kings...
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C. THE INVASION PLAN GOES WRONG AND THE INVADERS FIND THEMSELVES IN
JEOPARDY THROUGH LACK OF WATER WITH THE RESULT THAT JEHOSHAPHAT
DESIRES THE ADVICE OF A PROPHET OF YHWH (2 KINGS 3:8).
The alliance...
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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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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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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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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 3:4. AN ANNUAL TRIBUTE ON MOAB—The custom is common in the
East to pay custom or taxes with the products of the land. For a
Moabitish king, with rich pastures...
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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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2 Kings 6:33; Genesis 4:13; Isaiah 51:20; Isaiah 8:21; Proverbs 19:3;...