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2 Kings 3:20 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 3 · verse 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.2 Kings 3:20 · King James Version
2 Kings 3:20 in context
18And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
19And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
20And 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.
21And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.
22And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- offeringminchâha donationH4503 →
- morningbôqerproperly, dawnH1242 →
- offeredʻâlâhto ascend, intransitively or activelyH5927 →
- countryʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- filledmâlêʼto fill or be full of, in a wide applicationH4390 →
- watermayimwaterH4325 →
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I. We have here the divine gift of both those things which God had promised by Elisha - water and victory, and the former not only a pledge of the latter, but a means of it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 20-27