2 Kings 3:23 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²³ and they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ and they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ And they said, This is blood; the kings have surely been fighting and have slain one another. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ 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.

Common English Bible

²³ They said, “It’s blood! The kings must have fought each other and killed themselves! Now get the plunder, Moab!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And they said: "It is the blood of the sword! The kings have fought among themselves, and they have slain one another. Go now, Moab, to the spoils!"

2 Kings 3:23 Cross References

Isaiah 10:14

and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

2 Chronicles 20:25

And when Jehosh´aphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.

2 Kings 7:6

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.

Judges 5:30

Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sis´era a prey of divers colors, a prey of divers colors of needlework, of divers colors of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

2 Kings 3:22

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:

2 Kings 3:24

And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country.