2 Kings 3:25

Contextual Overview

²⁰About the time for the grain offering the next morning, water suddenly came from the direction of Edom and filled the land. ²⁰ It happened in the morning, about the time of offering the offering, that behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water. ²⁰ And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water. ²⁰ The next morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came from the direction of Edom, till the country was filled with water. ²⁰ The next morning, about the time the sacrifice was offered, water came from the direction of Edom and filled the valley. ²⁰ Sure enough, the next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water came flowing down from Edom and filled the land. ²⁰It happened in the morning, when the sacrifice was offered, that suddenly water came [miraculously] from the area of Edom, and the country was filled with water. ²⁰ And it happened in the morning about the time of offering the sacrifice, that behold, water came from the direction of Edom, and the country was filled with water. ²⁰ And in the morning whe the meat offring was offred, beholde, there came water by the way of Edom: and the countrey was filled with water. ²⁰Then it happened in the morning about the time of offering the sacrifice, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

Bible Verse Review
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beat down: 2 Kings 3:19, Judges 9:45, 2 Samuel 8:2, Isaiah 37:26, Isaiah 37:27

stopped: Genesis 26:15, Genesis 26:18, 2 Chronicles 32:4

and felled: Deuteronomy 20:19, Deuteronomy 20:20

only in: etc. Heb. until he left the stones thereof in Kir-haraseth

Kirharaseth: Supposed to be the same as Ar, or Areopolis, the capital of Moab. Deuteronomy 2:9, Isaiah 16:7, Isaiah 16:11, Jeremiah 48:31, Jeremiah 48:36, Kir-heres

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 3:5 - to cast Isaiah 15:1 - Kir

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they beat down the cities,.... Demolished the walls of them, and houses in them, wherever they came:

and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; which they had taken out of the walls and houses they pulled down; or which they picked up in the highway, as they passed along, being a stony country; or which being laid in heaps, gathered out of the fields, they took and scattered them all over them:

and they stopped all the wells of water; with stones and dirt:

and felled all the good trees; fruit bearing ones;

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only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; not able to demolish it, it being a strong fortified city, the principal of the kingdom, and into which the king of Moab had thrown himself, and the remains of his forces; of which see Isaiah 16:7,

howbeit, the slingers went about it, and smote it; smote the soldiers that appeared upon the walls of it; though Kimchi, and other Jewish writers, understand it of engineers, who cast out large stones from a sort of machines then in use, to batter down and break through the walls of cities.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Kir-Haraseth, also Kir-Hareseth, is identified almost certainly with the modern Kerak, a strong city on the highland immediately east of the southern part of the Dead Sea. It was the great fortress of Moab, though not the capital, which was Rabbath or Rabbah. It was an important strong-hold at the time of the Crusades, and is still a place of great strength. Kir seems to have meant “fortress.” It is found in Cir-cesium, Car-chemish, etc.

Kir-Haraseth resisted all the attempts to dismantle it; but the slingers found places on the hills which surrounded it, from where they could throw their stones into it and harass the garrison, though they could not take the town.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 3:25. On every good piece of land — On all cultivated ground, and especially fields that were sown.

Only in Kir-haraseth — This was the royal city of the Moabites, and, as we learn from Scripture, exceedingly strong; (see Isaiah 16:7; Isaiah 16:11); so that it is probable the confederate armies could not easily reduce it. The slingers, we are informed, went about the wall, and smote all the men that appeared on it, while no doubt the besieging army was employed in sapping the foundations.