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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 3:16 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ki 3:16 |
King James |
And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Make this valley full of ditches--capable of holding water. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Ditches - Or "pits" Jer 14:3. They were to dig pits in the broad valley or wady, wherein the water might remain, instead of flowing off down the torrent course. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Make this valley full of ditches - The word נחל nachal may be translated brook, as it is by the Vulgate and Septuagint. There probably was a river here, but it was now dry; and the prophet desires that they would enlarge the channel, and cut out various canals from it, and reservoirs, where water might be collected for the refreshment of the army and of the cattle; and these were to be made so wide that the reflection of the sun's rays from this water might be the means of confounding and destroying the Moabites. |
3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.