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2 Kings 3:22 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood. "
2 Kings 3:22
Verse in Context
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20 In the morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
21 Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, young and old, and stood on the border.
22 They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.
23 They said, “This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the plunder!”
24 When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land attacking the Moabites.
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2 Kings 3:1
"Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years."
2 Kings 3:2
"He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, but not like his father and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made."
2 Kings 3:3
"Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from them."
2 Kings 3:4
"Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams."
2 Kings 3:5
"But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel."
2 Kings 3:6
"King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel."
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