And 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:
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Adam Clarke
Saw the water on the other side as red as blood - This might have been an optical deception; I have seen the like sight when there was no reason to suspect supernatural agency. The Moabites had never…
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. God, who created, and…
Cambridge Bible
they rose up early in the morning When the rays of the sun would be shining obliquely on the water, and would cause it to have an unusual colour.
the water on the other side R.V. over against them.…