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2 Kings 1:1

Now Moab turned against Israel after the death of Ahab.

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

Christian Standard Bible®
After Ahab’s death, Moab rebelled against Israel.
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 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

1 Now Moab turned against Israel after the death of Ahab. 2 Ahaziah fell through the window of his second-floor room in Samaria, and lay sick. So he sent men with news, saying to them, "Go and ask Baalzebub the god of Ekron if I will get well again from this sickness." 3 But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Get up and go meet the men sent from the king of Samaria. Say to them, ‘Are you going to ask Baal-zebub the god of Ekron because there is no God in Israel?' 4 This is what the Lord says. ‘You will not leave the bed on which you lie. You will die for sure.'" Then Elijah left. 5 When the men returned to Ahaziah, he said to them, "Why have you returned?" 6 They said, "A man came up to meet us. He said to us, ‘Go and return to the king who sent you. Tell him, "This is what the Lord says. ‘Are you asking Baal-zebub the god of Ekron because there is no God in Israel? So you will not leave the bed on which you lie. You will die for sure.'"'" 7 Ahaziah said to them, "What kind of man was he who came to meet you and said this to you?" 8 They answered, "He was a man with much hair. He wore a piece of leather around his body." Ahaziah said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite."

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. He divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:5
Then God called the light day, and He called the darkness night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let plants grow from the earth, plants that have seeds. Let fruit trees grow on the earth that bring their kind of fruit with their own seeds." And it was so.
Genesis 1:12
Plants grew out of the earth, giving their own kind of seeds. Trees grew with their fruit, and their kind of seeds. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:16
Then God made the two great lights, the brighter light to rule the day, and the smaller light to rule the night. He made the stars also.
Genesis 1:17
God put them in the open space of the heavens to give light on the earth,
Genesis 1:19
There was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
Genesis 1:20
Then God said, "Let the waters be full of living things. Let birds fly above the earth in the open space of the heavens."
Genesis 1:22
God wanted good to come to them, saying, "Give birth to many. Grow in number. Fill the waters in the seas. Let birds grow in number on the earth."
Genesis 1:30
I have given every green plant for food to every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to every thing that moves on the earth that has life." 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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