When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, from the youngest to the oldest, were called out and were drawn up at the frontier.
2 Kings 3:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 When they rose early in the morning and the sun shone upon the water, the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When they rose up early next morning, and the sun shone upon the water, the Moabites saw the water across from them as red as blood. American Standard Version (1901) 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: Common English Bible They got up early in the morning as the sun’s rays shone on the water. The Moabites saw the water from a distance. It looked as red as blood. Catholic Public Domain Version And rising up in early morning, and when the sun was now rising before the waters, the Moabites saw the waters opposite them, which were red like blood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they rose early in the morning, and the sun being now up, and shining upon the waters, the Moabites saw the waters over against them red, like blood, |
When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, from the youngest to the oldest, were called out and were drawn up at the frontier.
They said, “This is blood; the kings must have fought together and killed one another. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!”
For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the sound of chariots and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “The king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to fight against us.”