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2 Kings 1

2 Kings 1:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then 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)
a against 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'
after
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
the death
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
of 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'}
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2 Kings 3:5• 5But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. (2 Kings 3:5)
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2 Sam. 8:2• 2And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts. (2 Sam. 8:2)

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Ahab,
Death,
Israel,
Moab; Moabites

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Ministry on This Verse

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The Second Book of the KINGS, commonly called The Fourth Book of the KINGS.
1:  Moab rebels.
2-4:  Ahaziah, sending to Baal-zebub, hath his judgment by Elijah.
5-12:  Elijah twice brings fire from heaven upon them whom Ahaziah sent to apprehend him.
13-16:  He pities the third captain, and, encouraged by an angel, tells the king of his death.
17-18:  Jehoram succeeds Ahaziah.Moab.
Num. 24:7• 7He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. (Num. 24:7)
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2 Sam. 8:2• 2And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts. (2 Sam. 8:2)
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1 Chron. 18:2• 2And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts. (1 Chron. 18:2)
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Psa. 60:8• 8Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me. (Psa. 60:8)
after the.
2 Kings 3:4‑5• 4And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
 5But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. (2 Kings 3:4‑5)
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2 Kings 8:20,22• 20In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
 22Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time. (2 Kings 8:20,22)
• This division into two books does not form part of the inspired text, which originally formed but one book in the Hebrew canon. As we are mentioning this subject in passing, we would add for our readers that one of the great divisions of the Old Testament, “The Prophets,” included besides the books of the prophets proper with exception of Daniel and Lamentations, all the books from Joshua through the books of Kings except for the book of Ruth. The mere title, “The Prophets,” enlightens us about the authors of the historical books with which we are occupied. (“Meditations on 2 Kings: Introduction” by H.L. Rossier)
• The rebellion of Moab against Israel is the first consequence of Ahaziah’s unfaithfulness (see 1 Kings 22:52-54). It is a judgment upon the king who by his idolatry had provoked God to anger. (“Elijah and Ahaziah: 2 Kings 1” by H.L. Rossier)
• Moab, chastised by Saul (1 Sam. 14:47), then subjugated by David (2 Sam. 8:2, 12; 1 Chron. 18:2), had been subject under the glorious reign of Solomon, like all the other kingdoms which brought their tribute to the king sitting upon his throne in Jerusalem (1 Kings 4:21; 10:25). Since the division of the twelve tribes, Moab, by reason of its geographic position, had become tributary to Israel rather than to Judah (2 Kings 3:5). Its tribute (100,000 lambs and 100,000 rams with their wool), enormous for such a limited country, must have weighed heavily upon it, to say nothing of the humiliation impatiently suffered by this proud and haughty nation. Thus it is not surprising that Moab should seize upon the first occasion to free itself. But above the external fact which strikes man’s attention, the believer sees something invisible, the only important thing for him —the hand of God stretched forth to judge the people and their ungodly leader. (“Elijah and Ahaziah: 2 Kings 1” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.