Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood on the border.
2 Kings 3:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 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: 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, |
Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood on the border.
and they said, This is blood; the kings are surely destroyed, and they have smitten each man his fellow: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.