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2 Kings 3:18

2 Kings 3:18
And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them,.... The kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom:

they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward; that were…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Kings 3:6-19

Jehoram has no sooner got the sceptre into his hand than he takes the sword into his hand, to reduce Moab. Crowns bring great cares and perils to the heads that wear them; no sooner in honour than in…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

And this isbut a light thing For the expression cf. below ch. 2Ki 20:10. What God gives, He gives to the full. He will not only guide the forces of nature so that the bodily wants of the armies shall…