Now when all the Mo`avim heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood on the border.
2 Kings 3:22 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Mo`avim saw the water over against them as red as blood: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 Mo`avim heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood on the border.
and they said, This is blood; the kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each man his fellow: now therefore, Mo'av, to the spoil.
For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Yisra'el has hired against us the kings of the Chitti, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us.