2 Kings 3:6, 2 Kings 3:7 ESV

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Kings 3:4-20

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 in his own territory, and also in the Arabian wilderness, this was but a small tribute to pay. 2 Kings 3:6-7. Confederation of Jehoram and Jehoshaphat—This was effected “at the same time” (2 Kings 3:6) as Jehoram began his reign and Moab rebelled; and the confederation was with the design of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 3:1-27

Chapter 3Now 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, the other son of Ahab, began now to reign while Jehoshaphat was still king of Judah; he reigned for twelve years.And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not as bad as his father: for he did remove the Baal image of Baal that his father had made. Nevertheless he continued in the ways... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 3:1-27

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 seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat. 1 Kings 22:51. To reconcile the variation, it is supposed that either Jehoshaphat or Ahaziah began to reign before his father was dead, as was the case with Solomon. 2 Kings 3:2 . He put away the image of Baal. This god was becoming unpopular, for he had not, like... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 3:6

2Ki 3:6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel. Ver. 6. The same time. ] That is, So soon as by the death of his brother he came to the kingdom. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Kings 3:6

am 3109, bc 895 numbered: 1 Samuel 11:8, 1 Samuel 15:4, 2 Samuel 24:1-Lamentations :, 1 Kings 20:27 read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 3:4-27

THE WAR WITH MESHA, KING OF MOAB, 2 Kings 3:4-27. Peculiar interest has become attached to the biblical history of Mesha, king of Moab, by reason of the recently discovered (1870) inscription of this king on a monumental stone at Dibon. To this we have already made reference in the note on 1 Kings 16:23. In the inscription Mesha claims to have captured a city from the king of Israel, and to have had various successes and victories, which we may suppose probably occurred during the reign of... read more