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Adam Clarke Commentary
The Lord hath called these three kings together - That is, This is a Divine judgment; God has judicially blinded us, and permitted us to take this journey to our destruction.
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Clarke, Adam. "Commentary on 2 Kings 3:10". "The Adam Clarke Commentary". https:/
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
And the king of Israel said, alas!.... Lamenting their sad case, as being desperate; and the rather he was the more concerned, as he was the principal who had drawn the other kings into this affair, though he throws it upon the Lord and his providence:
that the Lord hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hands of Moab; into whose hands they must inevitably fall, if they could have no water to refresh them; since they would be so weak as not to be able to stand a battle with them, and be dispersed here and there in search of water, and so fall into their hands. Extreme thirst is intolerable. It is reported
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Gill, John. "Commentary on 2 Kings 3:10". "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". https:/
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary
Observe the daring impiety of the king of Israel, in charging this plan of his own upon the Lord. Oh! how disposed the mind of man is to evil.
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Hawker, Robert, D.D. "Commentary on 2 Kings 3:10". "Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary". https:/
John Trapp Complete Commentary
2 Kings 3:10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
Ver. 10. Alas! that the Lord hath called.] Vox est admirantis et desperantis, saith Vatablus. He seeketh to lay the blame upon the Lord: though it were himself especially that brought the army into that distress. "The wickedness of a man perverteth his way, and his heart fretteth against the Lord." [Proverbs 19:3]
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Trapp, John. "Commentary on 2 Kings 3:10". John Trapp Complete Commentary. https:/
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible
So he chargeth his calamity upon God; and not upon himself, whose sins were the true and proper causes of it.
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Poole, Matthew, "Commentary on 2 Kings 3:10". Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. https:/
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
(10) That.—Omit (kî, emphatically introducing the assertion).
Together.—Omit.
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Ellicott, Charles John. "Commentary on 2 Kings 3:10". "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". https:/
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!- the Lord
- 6:33; Genesis 4:13; Psalms 78:34-36; Proverbs 19:3; Isaiah 8:21; 51:20
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Torrey, R. A. "Commentary on 2 Kings 3:10". "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". https:/
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