2nd Kings Chapter 3 verse 22 Holy Bible
And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood:
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And early in the morning they got up, when the sun was shining on the water, and they saw the water facing them as red as blood.
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And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun rose upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side red as blood.
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And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
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And they rose early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
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They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood:
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And they rise early in the morning, and the sun hath shone on the waters, and the Moabites see, from over-against, the waters red as blood,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood. The red hue of the water is ascribed by Ewald to "the red tinge of the soil" in the part of Edom where the rain had fallen ('History of Israel,' vol. 4. p. 88); by Keil, to "the reddish earth of the freshly dug trenches," or pits ('Commentary on 2 Kings,' p. 305); but the only cause of the redness mentioned either in Kings or in Josephus is the ruddy hue of the sunrise. A ruddy sunrise is common in the East, more especially in stormy weather (see Matthew 16:3); and the red light, falling upon the water in the pits, and reflected thence to the opposite side of the wady, would quite sufficiently account for the mistake of the Moabites, without supposing that the water was actually stained and discolored. The Moabites concluded that the red-looking liquid was blood, from knowing that the wady was dry the day before, and from not suspecting that there had been any change in the night, as the storm which had caused the change was at such a distance.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) They rose up early.--The Moabite camp on the frontier mountains.And the sun shone upon the water.--A parenthesis (now the sun had risen upon the water). The red sunrise tinged the water with the same colour.On the other side.--Min-neged, "opposite," "over against them" (2Kings 2:7; 2Kings 2:15). The sun rose behind the Moabites.Red.--'Ad?m. There may be an allusion to the red earth of the locality (Edom), which would further redden the water.
