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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 3:26-27

The heartlessness of heathenism. 1. Heathenism blights the natural affections . Christianity honors and sanctifies them. 2. Heathenism disregards human life . What sacrifice of life by cannibalism, under the car of Juggernaut, in the suttees of India! What disregard of human life in the exposure of Chinese infants, in the aged and the sick left alone to die on the banks of the Indian rivers! Christianity has changed all this. It takes high views of human life. The body is the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 3:27

Then he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his stead —the throne of Moab being hereditary, and primogeniture the established law (cf. Moabite Stone, lines 2 and 3, "My father reigned over Moab thirty years, and I reigned after my father")— and offered him for a burnt offering. Human sacrifice was widely practiced by the idolatrous nations who bordered on Palestine, and by none more than by the Moabites. A former King of Moab, when in a sore strait, had asked, "Shah I give my... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 3:26

To break through, even unto the king of Edom - Either because he thought that the king of Edom would connive at his escape or to take vengeance on him for having deserted his former allies (2 Kings 3:8 note). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 3:27

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 obtain his aid against his enemies. This act was thoroughly in accordance with Moabitish notions.And there was great indignation against Israel - Either the Israelites were indignant with themselves, or the men of Judah and the Edomites were indignant at the Israelites for having caused the pollution... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 3:26

2 Kings 3:26. He took with him seven hundred men to break through, &c. He made a sally with seven hundred stout men, upon the quarter of the king of Edom, which he thought the weakest side, hoping to break through and escape. But they were repulsed, and compelled to retreat. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 3:27

2 Kings 3:27. 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 among various people to sacrifice to their gods whatever was most dear to them.” Eusebius and Luctantius mention several nations who used these sacrifices. And “Cesar, in his war with the Gauls, tells us that when they were afflicted with grievous diseases, or in time of war or great... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 3:1-27

Elisha helps in the defeat of Moab (3:1-27)Joram (or Jehoram) succeeded his brother Ahaziah in Israel. He was not as bad as his father Ahab, and at least showed some displeasure with Baal worship by removing a sacred pillar that his father had built (3:1-3).After Ahab’s death, Moab had revolted against Israelite rule and refused to pay tribute, but Ahaziah did nothing about it (see 1:1). Joram tried to recover this valuable source of income by a military attack in which he had the support of... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 3:27

offered him = offered him up. App-43 . a burnt offering. App-43 . Recording a 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 as in verses: 2 Kings 3:4 , 2 Kings 3:10 . indignation = wrath. This led probably to Moab ' s subsequent success. they departed. This expresses the failure of Israel ' s expedition, while Mesha goes on to record his subsequent successes, which were great all the cities taken by him (... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Kings 3:26

THE GREAT INDIGNATION THAT CAME AGAINST ISRAEL"And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew the sword, to break through unto the king of Edom; but they could not. 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 wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land."The best explanation of what happened here is... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 3:27

2 Kings 3:27. 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 various people to sacrifice to their gods whatever was most dear to them. Caesar in his war with the Gauls tells us, that when they were afflicted with grievous diseases, or in time of war or great danger, they either offered men for sacrifices, or vowed that they would offer them;... read more