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2 Kings 3:19
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
And ye: 2 Kings 13:17, Numbers 24:17, Judges 6:16, 1 Samuel 15:3, 1 Samuel 23:2
fell: Deuteronomy 20:19, Deuteronomy 20:20
mar: Heb. grieve, 2 Kings 3:25
Cross-References
The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
And the man replied, "The woman whom you gave to be with me—she gave to me from the tree and I ate."
The man said, "You gave this woman to me and she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it."
The man said, "The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it."
And the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me—she gave me [fruit] from the tree, and I ate it."
The man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me some of the fruit of the tree, and I ate."
Then the man saide, The woman which thou gauest to be with me, she gaue me of the tree, and I did eate.
And the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave to me from the tree, and I ate."
"It was the woman you put here with me," the man said. "She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And ye shall smite every fenced city and every choice city,.... That is, the inhabitants of them with the sword, and demolish them also, 2 Kings 3:25, and shall fell every good tree; which seems contrary to the law in Deuteronomy 20:19, but that may respect trees belonging to a city when besieged only, or only to Canaanitish cities; or the law was now dispensed with, and that for this time only, to make the punishment of Moab the greater, for their rebellion and other sins:
and stop all wells of water; which must be very distressing to those that survived the calamity of the sword:
and mar every good piece of land with stones; as that it could not be ploughed and sowed, nor anything spring up and grow upon it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Ye shall fell every good tree - This is not an infringement of the rule laid down in Deuteronomy 20:19-20. The Israelites were not forbidden to fell the fruit trees in an enemyâs country, as a part of the ravage of war, when they had no thoughts of occupying the country. The plan of thus injuring an enemy was probably in general use among the nations of these parts at the time. We see the destruction represented frequently on the Assyrian monuments and mentioned in the inscriptions of Egypt.
And stop all wells of water - The stoppage of wells was a common feature of ancient, and especially Oriental, warfare (compare Genesis 26:15-18).
Mar ... with stones - The exact converse of that suggested in Isaiah 5:2. The land in and about Palestine is so stony that the first work of the cultivator is to collect the surface stones together into heaps. An army marching through a land could easily undo this work, dispersing the stones thus gathered, and spreading them once more over the fields.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Kings 3:19. Shall fell every good tree — Every tree by which your enemies may serve themselves for fortifications, c. But surely fruit trees are not intended here for this was positively against the law of God, Deuteronomy 20:19-20: "When thou shalt besiege a city - thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof - for the tree of the field is man's life - only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down."
Stop all wells of water — In those hot countries this would lead sooner than any thing else to reduce an enemy.
Mar every good piece of land with stones. — Such a multitude of men, each throwing a stone on a good field as they passed, would completely destroy it.
