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Second Book of Kings, Chapter 3

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Chapter 3 of 2 Kings—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ As for Je·hoʹram1 the son of Aʹhab, he became king over Israel in Sa·marʹi·a in the eighteenth year of Je·hoshʹa·phat the king of Judah, and he continued to reign for twelve years.
  2. And he kept on doing what was bad in Jehovah’s eyes,2 only not like his father3 or like his mother, but he removed the sacred pillar4 of Baʹal that his father had made.5
  3. Only he stuck to the sins of Jer·o·boʹam6 the son of Neʹbat, with which he caused Israel to sin.7 He did not depart from them.
  4. ¶ As regards Meʹsha8 the king of Moʹab, he became a sheep raiser, and he paid to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand unshorn male sheep.[a]
  5. And it came about that as soon as Aʹhab died,9 the king of Moʹab began to revolt10 against the king of Israel.
  6. Consequently King Je·hoʹram went out on that day from Sa·marʹi·a and mustered11 all Israel.
  7. He went farther and now sent to Je·hoshʹa·phat the king of Judah, saying: “The king of Moʹab himself has revolted against me. Will you go with me to Moʹab in war?” To this he said: “I shall go.12 I am the same as you are; my people are the same as your people;13 my horses are the same as your horses.”
  8. And he went on to say: “By which particular way shall we go up?” So he said: “By the way of the wilderness of Eʹdom.”14
  9. ¶ And the king of Israel and the king of Judah and the king of Eʹdom15 proceeded to go, and they kept going their way around for seven days, and there proved to be no water for the camp and for the domestic animals that were following their steps.
  10. At length the king of Israel said: “How unfortunate that Jehovah has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moʹab!”16
  11. At that Je·hoshʹa·phat said:17 “Is there not here a prophet of Jehovah?18 Then let us inquire of Jehovah through him.”19 So one of the servants of the king of Israel answered and said: “There is here E·liʹsha20 the son of Shaʹphat, who poured out water upon the hands of E·liʹjah.”21
  12. Then Je·hoshʹa·phat said: “The word of Jehovah exists with him.” Accordingly the king of Israel and Je·hoshʹa·phat and the king of Eʹdom went down to him.
  13. ¶ And E·liʹsha proceeded to say to the king of Israel: “What do I have to do with you?[b]22 Go to the prophets23 of your father and to the prophets of your mother.” But the king of Israel said to him: “No, for Jehovah has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moʹab.”24
  14. To this E·liʹsha said: “As Jehovah of armies before whom I do stand[c] is living,25 if it were not that it is the face of Je·hoshʹa·phat the king of Judah for which I am having consideration,26 I would not look at you or see you.27
  15. And now YOU men fetch me a string-instrument player.”28 And it occurred that, as soon as the string-instrument player played, the hand29 of Jehovah came to be upon him.
  16. And he went on to say: “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘Let there be a making[d] of this torrent valley full of ditches;[e]30
  17. for this is what Jehovah has said: “YOU men will not see a wind, and YOU will not see a downpour; yet that torrent valley will be filled with water,31 and YOU men will certainly drink [from it],32 YOU and YOUR livestock and YOUR domestic animals.”’
  18. And this will indeed be a trivial thing in the eyes of Jehovah,33 and he will certainly give Moʹab into YOUR hand.34
  19. And YOU must strike down every fortified city35 and every choice city, and every good36 tree YOU should fell,37 and all the springs of water YOU should stop up, and every good tract of land YOU should mar with stones.”
  20. ¶ And it came about in the morning,38 at the time of the going up of the grain offering,39 that, look! water was coming from the direction of Eʹdom, and the land came to be filled with the water.
  21. ¶ As regards all the Moʹab·ites, they heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. Consequently they called together [men] from as many as were girding40 on a belt and upward, and they began standing at the boundary.
  22. When they got up early in the morning, the sun itself flashed upon the water, so that the Moʹab·ites from the opposite side saw the water red like blood.
  23. And they began to say: “This is blood! The kings have unquestionably been put to the sword, and they went striking one another down. So now, to the spoil,41 O Moʹab!”
  24. When they came into the camp of Israel, the Israelites42 immediately rose up and began striking the Moʹab·ites down so that they took to flight from before them.43 Hence they came into Moʹab,[f] striking the Moʹab·ites down as they came.[g]
  25. And the cities they went throwing down,44 and, as for every good tract of land, they would pitch each one his stone and actually fill it; and every spring of water they would stop45 up, and every good tree they would fell,46 until they left only the stones of Kir-harʹe·seth47 remaining in it; and the slingers began going around it and striking it down.
  26. ¶ When the king of Moʹab saw that the battle had proved too strong for him, he at once took with him seven hundred men drawing sword to break through to the king of Eʹdom;48 but they were not able to.
  27. Finally he took his firstborn son who was going to reign in place of him and offered49 him up as a burnt sacrifice upon the wall. And there came to be great indignation against Israel, so that they pulled away from against him and returned to their land.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, “the wool of a hundred thousand male sheep.”
  2. ^ Lit., “What [is there] to me and to you?” A Heb. idiom; a repellent question indicating objection. See App 7B.
  3. ^ Or, “upon whom I do attend.”
  4. ^ “Let there be a making.” In Heb. this is a verb in the infinitive absolute, indefinite as to time and impersonal.
  5. ^ Lit., “ditches, ditches.”
  6. ^ Lit., “it.”
  7. ^ “Hence they came to Moab, striking . . . as they came,” by an emendation of M in agreement with LXX.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 2Ki 1:17
  2. ^ Jb 34:21
  3. ^ 1Ki 16:30
  4. ^ Ex 23:24; 34:13
  5. ^ 1Ki 16:33
  6. ^ 1Ki 12:28; 2Ki 10:29
  7. ^ 1Ki 14:16
  8. ^ 2Ki 3:27
  9. ^ 1Ki 22:37
  10. ^ 2Sa 8:2; 2Ki 1:1
  11. ^ 1Ki 20:27
  12. ^ 2Ch 19:2
  13. ^ 1Ki 22:4; 2Co 6:14
  14. ^ Nu 21:4
  15. ^ 2Sa 8:14; 1Ki 22:47; Ec 4:12
  16. ^ 1Ch 15:13; Ps 78:34; Pr 19:3; Is 8:21
  17. ^ 1Ki 22:7
  18. ^ Am 3:7
  19. ^ Jg 20:18
  20. ^ 1Ki 19:16; 2Ki 2:15
  21. ^ 1Ki 19:21; Lu 22:26
  22. ^ 1Sa 2:30; Eze 14:3; 1Co 10:21
  23. ^ Jg 10:14; 1Ki 18:19; 22:6, 22
  24. ^ De 32:39; Ho 6:1
  25. ^ De 6:13; Je 12:16
  26. ^ 2Ch 17:3; 19:4
  27. ^ Jb 34:18; Pr 15:29; Mc 3:4
  28. ^ 1Sa 10:5; 1Ch 25:1
  29. ^ 1Ki 18:46; Eze 1:3; 3:14; 8:1; Ac 11:21
  30. ^ Je 14:3
  31. ^ Ps 84:6; 107:35
  32. ^ Is 41:17
  33. ^ Je 32:17; Mr 10:27
  34. ^ De 28:7
  35. ^ De 3:5
  36. ^ De 20:19
  37. ^ 2Ki 3:25
  38. ^ Ex 29:39
  39. ^ Ex 29:41
  40. ^ 1Ki 20:11
  41. ^ Ex 15:9; Jg 5:30
  42. ^ 1Ki 12:19
  43. ^ Le 26:7; 1Th 5:3
  44. ^ Is 37:26
  45. ^ Ge 26:15; 2Ch 32:4
  46. ^ 2Ki 3:19
  47. ^ Is 15:1; 16:7
  48. ^ 2Ki 3:9
  49. ^ De 12:31; 1Ki 11:7; 2Ki 17:17; 2Ch 28:3; Ps 106:37; Je 7:31; Eze 16:20; 1Co 10:20

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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