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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• 1Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. (2 Kings 1:1)
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2 Kings 8:20• 20In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. (2 Kings 8:20)

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

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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2 Kings 1:1• 1Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. (2 Kings 1:1)
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2 Kings 8:20• 20In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. (2 Kings 8:20)
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2 Chron. 21:8‑10• 8In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.
 9Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.
 10So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the Lord 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.