And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
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Gill's Exposition
So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah,.... The way of the wilderness of Edom, proposed by the latter:
and the king of Edom; whom they took with them in their way, who was not properly a…
Barnes' Notes
The close alliance between the two kingdoms still subsisted. Jehoram therefore sends confidently to make the same request with respect to Moab that his father had made two years before with respect to…
Adam Clarke
My people as thy people - We find that Jehoshaphat maintained the same friendly intercourse with the son, as he did with the father. See Kg1 22:4.
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…
Cambridge Bible
And he went and sent This Hebrew verb -to go" is not un-frequently placed before another finite verb, without any special sense of moving from a place, but merely to express the idea of -setting…
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