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2 Kings 3:6

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So at that time King Jehoram set out from Samaria and mobilized all Israel.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And king Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.

KJV

And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.

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This verse in 2 Kings 3

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

King Jehoram . . . numbered Israel--made a levy from his own subjects, and at the same time sought an alliance with Jehoshaphat, which, as on the former occasion with Ahab, was readily promised (1Ki 22:4).

This site's exposition

and numbered all Israel

on 2 Kings 3:6-8

Jehoram's muster and his message to Jehoshaphat, wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle, repeat Ahab's own summons before Ramoth-gilead in 1 Ki 22:4 almost word for word, down to Jehoshaphat's identical answer, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses. Jehoshaphat's readiness to yoke Judah to a northern king's war is the same pattern the chronicler will later rebuke him for at 2 Chr 19:2, lovest thou them that hate the LORD. The route chosen, through the wilderness of Edom, adds a third king and a longer march to an alliance already made.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And King Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, As soon as he came to the throne: and numbered all Israel; who were fit to bear arms, got them together at some certain place, and mustered them, and prepared for a war with Moab, to reduce them.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Mesha king of Moab, &c.--As his dominions embraced an extensive pasture country, he paid, as annual tribute, the wool of a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand rams. It is still common in the East to pay custom and taxes in the fruits or natural produce of the land.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּצֵ֞אand he went out

    vaiyetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • הַמֶּ֧לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יְהוֹרָ֛םJehoram

    yehoramH3088 →29 times

  • בַּיּ֥וֹםon the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַה֖וּא<the> that

    hahu'H1931 →1879 times

  • מִשֹּׁמְר֑וֹןfrom Samaria

    mishomeronH8111 →109 times

  • וַיִּפְקֹ֖דand he mustered

    vaiyifkodH6485 →303 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 15:4

    So Saul summoned the troops and numbered them at Telaim—200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 13:15

      Then Samuel set out from Gilgal and went up to Gibeah in Benjamin. And Saul numbered the troops who were with him, about six hundred men.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 15:24

      Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

  • Through

    1 Kings 20:27

    The Israelites also mobilized, gathered supplies, and marched out to meet them. The Israelites camped before them like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 13:5–8

      Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of…

    • Judges 6:5

      For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.

    • Ecclesiastes 9:11

      I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor…

    • Deuteronomy 32:30

      How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

  • Through

    1 Samuel 11:8

    And when Saul numbered them at Bezek, there were 300,000 Israelites and 30,000 men of Judah.

    it leads to

    • Judges 1:4–5

      When Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.

    • 2 Samuel 24:9

      And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Kings.

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