2 Kings 3:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

2 Kings 3:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 1:1
Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
2 Kings 8:20
In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
2 Chronicles 21:8-10
In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king. …

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Lot Moabites

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

Jehoram, the son of Ahab, and brother of Ahaziah, is here upon the throne of Israel; and, though he was but a bad man, yet two commendable things are here recorded of him:— I. That he removed his father’s idols. He did evil in many things, but not like his father Ahab or his mother Jezebel, 2 Kgs. 3:2. Bad he was, but not so bad, so overmuch wicked, as Solomon speaks, Eccl. 7:17. Perhaps Jehoshaph…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

4-6. Mesha king of Moab, &c.--As his dominions embraced an extensive pasture country, he paid, as annual tribute, the wool of a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand rams. It is still common in the East to pay custom and taxes in the fruits or natural produce of the land.