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2 Kings 1:1

After Ahab’s death, Moab rebelled against Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Israel;   Scofield Reference Index - Kings;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions of the Wicked, the;   Moabites;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahaziah;   Elijah;   Mesha;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ahaziah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Omri;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahab;   Ahaziah;   Ben-Hadad;   Jehoram;   Mesha;   Moab;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Insects;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Mesha;   Moab and the Moabite Stone;   Philistines, the;   Samaria, Samaritans;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahaziah;   Elijah;   Jeremiah;   Mesha;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jezebel;   Samaria;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ahaziah;   Elijah;   Moab;   Samaria;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ahazi'ah;   Eli'jah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Ahaziah;   Plagues of Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Moab;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Mo'av rebelled against Yisra'el after the death of Ach'av.
King James Version
Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
English Standard Version
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.
New Century Version
After Ahab died, Moab broke away from Israel's rule.
New English Translation
After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel.
Amplified Bible
Now Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
New American Standard Bible
Now Moab broke with Israel after the death of Ahab.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab:
Legacy Standard Bible
Now Moab revolted against Israel after the death of Ahab.
Contemporary English Version
Soon after King Ahab of Israel died, the country of Moab rebelled against his son King Ahaziah. One day, Ahaziah fell through the wooden slats around the porch on the flat roof of his palace in Samaria, and he was badly injured. So he sent some messengers to the town of Ekron with orders to ask the god Baalzebub if he would get well.
Complete Jewish Bible
After Ach'av's death Mo'av rebelled against Isra'el.
Darby Translation
And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
Easy-to-Read Version
After King Ahab died, Moab broke away from Israel's rule.
George Lamsa Translation
THEN Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
Good News Translation
After the death of King Ahab of Israel the country of Moab rebelled against Israel.
Lexham English Bible
Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
Literal Translation
And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The Moabites also fell awaye from Israel, whan Achab was deed.
American Standard Version
And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
Bible in Basic English
After the death of Ahab, Moab made itself free from the authority of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Ahab.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
King James Version (1611)
Then Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Ahab.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moab repelled against Israel after the death of Achaab.
English Revised Version
And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
Berean Standard Bible
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Moab trespasside ayens Israel, after that Achab was deed.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moab transgresseth against Israel after the death of Ahab,
Update Bible Version
And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
World English Bible
Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
New King James Version
Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
New Living Translation
After King Ahab's death, the land of Moab rebelled against Israel.
New Life Bible
Now Moab turned against Israel after the death of Ahab.
New Revised Standard
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then Moab revolted against Israel, after the death of Ahab.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Achab.
Revised Standard Version
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.
THE MESSAGE
After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

Contextual Overview

1After Ahab’s death, Moab rebelled against Israel. 2Ahaziah had fallen through the latticed window of his upstairs room in Samaria and was injured. So he sent messengers, instructing them, “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.” 3But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? 4Therefore, this is what the Lord says: You will not get up from your sickbed; you will certainly die.’” Then Elijah left. 5The messengers returned to the king, who asked them, “Why have you come back?” 6They replied, “A man came to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and declare to him: This is what the Lord says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you’re sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore, you will not get up from your sickbed; you will certainly die.’” 7The king asked them, “What sort of man came up to meet you and spoke those words to you?” 8They replied, “A hairy man with a leather belt around his waist.”

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Moab: Numbers 24:7, 2 Samuel 8:2, 1 Chronicles 18:2, Psalms 60:8

after the: 2 Kings 3:4, 2 Kings 3:5, 2 Kings 8:20, 2 Kings 8:22

Reciprocal: 2 Peter 3:16 - speaking

Cross-References

Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:5
God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” There was an evening, and there was a morning: one day.
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:12
The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:16
God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night—as well as the stars.
Genesis 1:17
God placed them in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth,
Genesis 1:19
Evening came and then morning: the fourth day.
Genesis 1:20
Then God said, “Let the water swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”
Genesis 1:22
God blessed them: “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 1:30
for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth—everything having the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. Which had been in subjection to them from the times of David, 2 Samuel 8:2 refusing to pay a tribute as they had done; taking advantage of Ahab's ill success with the king of Syria, and of his death, and the condition and circumstances of his successor.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Moabites, who had once lorded over Israel Judges 3:12-14, were reduced to subjection by David, and treated with extreme severity (marginal reference). In the time of Ahab they were dependent on the kingdom of Israel, to which it has been generally supposed that they fell at the separation of Israel from Judah. The Moabite monument (see 2 Kings 3:4), discovered in 1869, has now given reason to believe that they then recovered their independence, but were again reduced by Omri, who, with his son Ahab, is said (in round numbers) to have “oppressed” them for “forty years.” Ahab’s death was seized upon as an occasion for revolt, and Moab (perhaps owing to Ahaziah’s sickness) easily regained her independence.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

THE SECOND BOOK OF THE KINGS,

OTHERWISE CALLED THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS

-Year from the Creation, according to the English Bible, 3108.

-Year before the birth of Christ, 892.

-Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity 896.

-Year since the Deluge, according to Archbishop Usher and the English Bible, 1452.

-Year of the Cali Yuga, or Indian era of the Deluge, 2206. Chronologers vary very considerably in their calculations of the time which elapsed between the flood and the birth of Abraham, the difference of the two extremes amounting to nine hundred years! Archbishop Usher's computation is from the common Hebrew text, with the single exception of fixing the birth of Abraham in the one hundred and thirtieth year of the life of his father, instead of the seventieth, in order to reconcile 2 Kings 11:26; 2 Kings 11:32, with Acts 7:4. But these passages are better reconciled, in the opinion of Dr. Kennicott, by stating (with the Samaritan Pentateuch) the whole life of Terah to have been one hundred and forty-five years, instead of two hundred and five, as in our common Bibles.

-Year from the destruction of Troy, according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 289.

-Year from the foundation of Solomon's temple, 115.

-Year since the division of Solomon's monarchy into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 79.

-Year before the era of Iphitus, who re-established the Olympic Games, three hundred and thirty-eight years after their institution by Hercules, or about eight hundred and eighty-four years before the commencement of the Christian era, 12.

-Year before the conquest of Coroebus at Elis, usually styled the first Olympiad, (being the 28th Olympiad after their re-establishment by Iphitus,) 120.

-Year before the Varronian or generally received era of the building of Rome, 143.

-Year before the building of Rome, according to Cato and the Fasti Consulares, 144.

-Year before the building of Rome, according to Polybius, the historian, 145.

-Year before the building of Rome, according to Fabius Pictor, who lived about two hundred and twenty-five years before the Christian era, 149.

-Year before the commencement of the Nabonassarean era, 149. The years of this epoch contained uniformly 365 days, so that 1461 Nabonassarean were equal to 1460 Julian years. This era commenced on the fourth of the calends of March, (Feb. 26,) B.C. 747; which was the year in which Romulus laid the foundation of Rome, according to Fabius Pictor.

-Year of the Julian Period, 3818.

-Year of the Dionysian Period, 94.

-Cycle of the Sun, 10.

-Cycle of the Moon, 18.

-Year of Megacles, the sixth perpetual archon of the Athenians, 26.

-Ocrazeres, the immediate predecessor of Sardanapalus, was king over the Assyrians about this time, according to Strauchius: but when this king reigned is very uncertain, Scaliger fixing the fall of Sardanapalus, which ended the Assyrian empire, in the year of the Julian Period, 3841; Langius, in 3852 of the same epocha; and Eusebius, in the year before Christ, 820.

-Year of Agrippa Silvius, the eleventh king of the Latins, 20.

-Year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, 18.

-Year of Ahaziah, king of Israel, 2.

-Last year of the Prophet Elijah.

-Tenth year of Elisha.

CHAPTER I

Ahaziah, being hurt by a fall, sends messengers to Baal-zebub

to inquire whether he shall recover, 1, 2.

They are met by Elijah, who sends them back with the

information that he shall surely die, 3-8.

The king sends a captain and fifty men, to bring Elijah to

Samaria, on which fire comes down from heaven, and destroys

both him and his men, 9, 10.

Another captain and fifty men are sent, who are likewise

destroyed, 11, 12.

A third is sent, who behaves himself humbly, and Elijah is

commanded to accompany him; he obeys, comes to the king,

reproves his idolatry, and announces his death, 13-16.

Ahaziah dies and Jehoram reigns in his stead, 17, 18.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse 2 Kings 1:1. Moab rebelled — The Moabites had been subdued by David, and laid under tribute, 2 Kings 3:4, and 2 Samuel 8:2. After the division of the two kingdoms, the Moabites fell partly under the dominion of Israel, and partly under that of Judah, until the death of Ahab, when they arose and shook off this yoke. Jehoram confederated with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, in order to reduce them. See this war, 2 Kings 3:5.


 
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