- 2 Kings 3:21-27 ESV

21 When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, from the youngest to the oldest, were called out and were drawn up at the border. 22 And when they rose early in the morning and the sun shone on the water, the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood. 23 And they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely fought together and struck one another down. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!” 24 But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose and struck the Moabites, till they fled before them. And they went forward, striking the Moabites as they went. 25 And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone until it was covered. They stopped every spring of water and felled all the good trees, till only its stones were left in Kir-hareseth, and the slingers surrounded and attacked it. 26 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him 700 swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom, but they could not. 27 Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great wrath against Israel. And they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.

THE SOVEREIGN ACTS OF GOD.

The Moabites rallied everyone, from the youngest to the oldest, to fight the Jews. Amazingly, they saw the pools of water as red as blood at a distance. This had deceived them to think that the Jews were killed out of infighting. Thus, they rushed to get the spoil. But, the Israelites rose and struck them in an ambush. They pursued them as they fled away striking everyone.

They overtook completely their cities exactly as Elisha had said. They overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone until it was covered. They stopped every spring of water and felled all the good trees, till only its stones were left in Kir-hareseth, and the slingers surrounded and attacked it.

Upon seeing his inevtable defeat, the king of Moab fled with 700 swordsmen. They wanted to breakthrough opposite the king of Edom but they couldn’t. Out of desperation he offered his eldest son, his successor to the throne, as a burnt offering to his idol. This caused a great ‘wrath’ to the Israelites, who were on the verge of winning, to withdraw.

Did the idol overpower God? Isn’t it that an idol is nothing before God? Definitely, God has allowed this to happen. He can use Babylon and Assyria later to fulfill His plan and purposes to discipline the Israelites. According the psalmist, “ Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.”[Psa 76:10]

Though how surprising these events were, Elisha’s prophecy happened exactly as proclaimed. Their withdrawal in such fashion did not nullify the prophecy. It does prove that not everything was revealed to Elisha by God. God had defied man’s expectations. God is not bound by the conventional. Why? He is the Sovereign God so that His actions could surprise us.

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