2Ki 3:27 | KingComments | STEP | The water began to flow around the time when the morning grain offering was offered in Jerusalem. The grain offering speaks of the Lord Jesus. All blessings that God allows to flow are based on God’s value of the Lord Jesus and are connected with Him. God counts the value of all things in the world accordingly. The Moabites only saw what the Israelites were doing. They had no idea what was really happening. That can only be perceived by faith. The Moabites believed that the Israelites were getting ready to attack. That is why they were mobilizing all those who could fight, even if they had minimal capability. They didn’t realize that they would be beaten even more thoroughly. When they got up in the morning, they saw that the color of the water was as the color of blood. They came to the wrong conclusion from this and thought that they would achieve an easy victory and take a lot of booty. The waters that meant life for the three kings meant death for the Moabites. Thus the Passover in Egypt was a feast for Israel, but for the Egyptians it meant judgment. In the same way, during the exodus from Egypt the cloud was light for Israel, but it was darkness for the Egyptians. The world and the flesh know nothing of the things of God ( ). What is refreshment for God’s people is death for the world. The Moabites revealed themselves and threw caution to the wind. By the time they discovered what was really going on, it was too late. For them there was no escape from defeat. The Israelites destroyed Moab, their fields, water sources and trees according to the word of Elisha in . Through the refreshment of the water they were able to destroy Moab’s sources of strength. The offspring of the flesh, which comes forth from the flesh, also dies. The only way to fight the flesh is through the Word of God - applied by the Spirit of God. The king of Moab still tried to break through to reach the Edomites to try to form an alliance with them. However, he did not succeed. He even came into such extremity that he sacrificed his heir to the throne, perhaps a young man, to his god Chemosh. Perhaps Chemosh would be softened by this sacrifice to provide a better outcome. There was great wrath against Israel, perpetuated by the LORD. The cause of this was the Israelites’ desire for revenge, which was so great that Mesha, king of Moab, felt compelled to commit this atrocity. The Israelites had forgotten that the LORD had shown mercy to them. They took revenge in a disproportionate way and thereby presented God, the God of His people, as unmerciful. This false representation of God could not go unpunished. How His wrath was expressed is not mentioned. However, it became clear to the people that they could no longer stay in Moab and returned to their own country.

‏ 2 Kings 3:27

Moab Slaughtered

The water began to flow around the time when the morning grain offering was offered in Jerusalem. The grain offering speaks of the Lord Jesus. All blessings that God allows to flow are based on God’s value of the Lord Jesus and are connected with Him. God counts the value of all things in the world accordingly.

The Moabites only saw what the Israelites were doing. They had no idea what was really happening. That can only be perceived by faith. The Moabites believed that the Israelites were getting ready to attack. That is why they were mobilizing all those who could fight, even if they had minimal capability. They didn’t realize that they would be beaten even more thoroughly. When they got up in the morning, they saw that the color of the water was as the color of blood. They came to the wrong conclusion from this and thought that they would achieve an easy victory and take a lot of booty.

The waters that meant life for the three kings meant death for the Moabites. Thus the Passover in Egypt was a feast for Israel, but for the Egyptians it meant judgment. In the same way, during the exodus from Egypt the cloud was light for Israel, but it was darkness for the Egyptians. The world and the flesh know nothing of the things of God (1Cor 2:14). What is refreshment for God’s people is death for the world.

The Moabites revealed themselves and threw caution to the wind. By the time they discovered what was really going on, it was too late. For them there was no escape from defeat. The Israelites destroyed Moab, their fields, water sources and trees according to the word of Elisha in 2Kgs 3:19. Through the refreshment of the water they were able to destroy Moab’s sources of strength. The offspring of the flesh, which comes forth from the flesh, also dies. The only way to fight the flesh is through the Word of God - applied by the Spirit of God.

The king of Moab still tried to break through to reach the Edomites to try to form an alliance with them. However, he did not succeed. He even came into such extremity that he sacrificed his heir to the throne, perhaps a young man, to his god Chemosh. Perhaps Chemosh would be softened by this sacrifice to provide a better outcome.

There was great wrath against Israel, perpetuated by the LORD. The cause of this was the Israelites’ desire for revenge, which was so great that Mesha, king of Moab, felt compelled to commit this atrocity. The Israelites had forgotten that the LORD had shown mercy to them. They took revenge in a disproportionate way and thereby presented God, the God of His people, as unmerciful. This false representation of God could not go unpunished. How His wrath was expressed is not mentioned. However, it became clear to the people that they could no longer stay in Moab and returned to their own country.