
Text -- 2 Kings 3:1 (NET)




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JFB -> 2Ki 3:1-2
JFB: 2Ki 3:1-2 - -- (compare 1Ki 22:51). To reconcile the statements in the two passages, we must suppose that Ahaziah, having reigned during the seventeenth and the grea...
(compare 1Ki 22:51). To reconcile the statements in the two passages, we must suppose that Ahaziah, having reigned during the seventeenth and the greater part of the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat, was succeeded by his brother Joram or Jehoram, in the end of that eighteenth year, or else that Ahaziah, having reigned two years in conjunction with his father, died at the end of that period when Jehoram ascended the throne. His policy was as hostile as that of his predecessors to the true religion; but he made some changes. Whatever was his motive for this alteration--whether dread of the many alarming judgments the patronage of idolatry had brought upon his father; or whether it was made as a small concession to the feelings of Jehoshaphat, his ally, he abolished idolatry in its gross form and restored the symbolic worship of God, which the kings of Israel, from the time of Jeroboam, had set up as a partition wall between their subjects and those of Judah.
TSK -> 2Ki 3:1

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Barnes -> 2Ki 3:1
Barnes: 2Ki 3:1 - -- In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat - This date agrees exactly with the statements that Jehoshaphat began to reign in the fourth year of Ahab...
Poole -> 2Ki 3:1
Poole: 2Ki 3:1 - -- The eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat
Quest. How can this be true, when Ahaziah, Jehoram’ s predecessor, who reigned two years, began his reign...
The eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat
Quest. How can this be true, when Ahaziah, Jehoram’ s predecessor, who reigned two years, began his reign in Jehoshaphat’ s seventeenth year, 1Ki 22:51 ?
Answ Either Ahaziah reigned the greatest part of two years, to wit, of the seventeenth and eighteenth years of Jehoshaphat, (parts of years being oft called years in the computation of times, both in Scripture and other authors,) and Jehoram began his reign towards the end of his eighteenth year; or Ahaziah reigned part of this two years with his father, and the rest after him.
Haydock: 2Ki 3:1 - -- Brick walls. It was the proper name of the city of the Moabites. In Hebrew, Kir-Charaseth. (Challoner) ---
Isaias xv., and xvi. 7. It was also...
Brick walls. It was the proper name of the city of the Moabites. In Hebrew, Kir-Charaseth. (Challoner) ---
Isaias xv., and xvi. 7. It was also called Ar, or Arcopolis. ---
Remained. Hebrew adds, "with the stones unmolested." They laid siege to it. (Haydock) ---
Slingers. Grotius would understand those who attended the machines designed to throw stones, &c. But the slingers kept off the enemy, while others undermined the walls. (Calmet)

Achab. Joram succeeded his brother, chap. i. 17.
Gill -> 2Ki 3:1
Gill: 2Ki 3:1 - -- Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah,.... So that the two years of the r...
Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah,.... So that the two years of the reign of his brother Ahaziah were not complete, only part of the seventeenth and part of the eighteenth of Jehoshaphat, since he began to reign in his seventeenth year, at the beginning of that, and died towards the close of the eighteenth, when Jehoram succeeded him, see 1Ki 22:51, and reigned twelve years.

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TSK Synopsis -> 2Ki 3:1-27
TSK Synopsis: 2Ki 3:1-27 - --1 Jehoram's reign.4 Mesha rebels.6 Jehoram, with Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom, being distressed for want of water, by Elisha obtains water, and p...
MHCC -> 2Ki 3:1-5
MHCC: 2Ki 3:1-5 - --Jehoram took warning by God's judgment, and put away the image of Baal, yet he maintained the worship of the calves. Those do not truly repent or refo...
Matthew Henry -> 2Ki 3:1-5
Matthew Henry: 2Ki 3:1-5 - -- Jehoram, the son of Ahab, and brother of Ahaziah, is here upon the throne of Israel; and, though he was but a bad man, yet two commendable things ar...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 2Ki 3:1-3
Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ki 3:1-3 - --
Reign of Joram of Israel. - For the chronological statement in 2Ki 3:1, see at 2Ki 1:17. Joram or Jehoram was not so ungodly as his father Ahab an...
Constable -> 2Ki 2:1--8:16; 2Ki 3:1-27
Constable: 2Ki 2:1--8:16 - --4. Jehoram's evil reign in Israel 2:1-8:15
Jehoram reigned 12 years in Israel (852-841 B.C.). Hi...
