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2 Kings 3

2 Kings 3:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Butc it came to pass, when Ahab
'Ach'ab (Hebrew #256)
from {SI 10251}251{/SI} and 1; brother (i.e. friend) of (his) father; Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon
KJV usage: Ahab.
Pronounce: akh-awb'
Origin: once (by contraction) oEchab (Jer. 29:22) {ekh- awb'}
was dead
maveth (Hebrew #4194)
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
KJV usage: (be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d).
Pronounce: maw'-veth
Origin: from 4191
, that the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of Moab
Mow'ab (Hebrew #4124)
from (her (the mother's)) father; Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants
KJV usage: Moab.
Pronounce: mo-awb
Origin: from a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m- and 1
rebelled
pasha` (Hebrew #6586)
to break away (from just authority), i.e. trespass, apostatize, quarrel
KJV usage: offend, rebel, revolt, transgress(-ion, -or).
Pronounce: paw-shah'
Origin: a primitive root (identical with 6585 through the idea of expansion)
against the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
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2 Kings 1:1• 1{i}And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.{/i} (2 Kings 1:1)
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2 Kings 8:20• 20{i}In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and they set a king over themselves.{/i} (2 Kings 8:20)

More on:

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Ahab,
Israel,
Kings,
Moab; Moabites,
Moabite Stone

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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2 Kings 1:1• 1{i}And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.{/i} (2 Kings 1:1)
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2 Kings 8:20• 20{i}In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and they set a king over themselves.{/i} (2 Kings 8:20)
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2 Chron. 21:8‑10• 8{i}In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and they set a king over themselves.{/i}
 9{i}And Jehoram went over with his captains, and all the chariots with him; and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites who had surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots.{/i}
 10{i}But the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. T{/i}he same time did Libnah revolt from under his hand, because he had forsaken Jehovah God of his fathers. (2 Chron. 21:8‑10)
• It was customary for subjugated kings to throw off the yoke of their oppressors just as soon as there was a change of reign (2 Kings 3:4-5). The politically-minded man sees nothing more than this in this rebellion of Moab, while the believer recognizes God’s hand in chastening or in judgment therein. (“Jehoram and the War Against Moab: 2 Kings 3” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And it came to pass when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

W. Kelly Translation

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And it came to pass when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)