2 Kings 3:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 1:1 : 1 After the death of Ahab, Moab made itself free from the authority of Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 8:20 : 20 In his time, Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves.
  • 2 Chr 21:8-9 : 8 In his time Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves. 9 Then Jehoram went over with his captains and all his war-carriages ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him ... on the captains of the war-carriages. 10 So Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, to this day: and at the same time Libnah made itself free from his rule; because he was turned away from the Lord, the God of his fathers.

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  • 2 Kgs 1:1
    89%

    1 After the death of Ahab, Moab made itself free from the authority of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 3:4
    78%

    4 Now Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep-farmer; and he gave regularly to the king of Israel the wool from a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand sheep.

  • 2 Kgs 13:20
    74%

    20 And death came to Elisha and they put his body into the earth. Now in the spring of the year, armed bands of Moabites frequently came, overrunning the land.

  • 2 Kgs 3:10
    73%

    10 And the king of Israel said, Here is trouble: for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them into the hands of Moab.

  • 2 Kgs 3:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 At that time, King Jehoram went out from Samaria and got all Israel together in fighting order.

    7 And he sent to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has got free from my authority: will you go with me to make war on Moab? And he said, I will go with you: I am as you are, my people as your people, and my horses as your horses.

  • 2 Kgs 3:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23 Then they said, This is blood: it is clear that destruction has come on the kings; they have been fighting one another: now come, Moab, let us take their goods.

    24 But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them;

  • 1 Kgs 16:28-30
    3 verses
    72%

    28 So Omri went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.

    29 In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.

    30 And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him.

  • Judg 3:30
    72%

    30 So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.

  • 2 Kgs 3:26-27
    2 verses
    72%

    26 And when the king of Moab saw that the fight was going against him, he took with him seven hundred men armed with swords, with the idea of forcing a way through to the king of Aram, but they were not able to do so.

    27 Then he took his oldest son, who would have been king after him, offering him as a burned offering on the wall. So there was great wrath against Israel; and they went away from him, back to their country.

  • 1 Kgs 21:15-18
    4 verses
    72%

    15 Then Jezebel, hearing that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, said to Ahab, Get up and take as your heritage the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he would not give you for money, for Naboth is no longer living but is dead.

    16 So Ahab, hearing that Naboth was dead, went down to the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite to take it as his heritage.

    17 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

    18 Go down to Ahab, king of Israel, in Samaria; see, he is in the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, where he has gone to take it as his heritage.

  • 2 Kgs 3:21
    72%

    21 Now all Moab, hearing that the kings had come to make war against them, got together all who were able to take up arms and went forward to the edge of the country.

  • 1 Kgs 22:40-41
    2 verses
    71%

    40 So Ahab was put to rest with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.

    41 And Jehoshaphat, the son of Asa, became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab's rule over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 22:2
    70%

    2 And it came about in the third year, that Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, came down to the king of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 21:1
    70%

    1 Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vine-garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria.

  • 2 Kgs 3:13
    70%

    13 But Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father and your mother. And the king of Israel said, No; for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them up into the hands of Moab.

  • Num 22:3
    70%

    3 And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
    69%

    37 And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.

  • 2 Chr 20:1
    69%

    1 Now after this, the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunim, made war against Jehoshaphat.

  • 1 Kgs 22:51
    69%

    51 Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, and he was king over Israel for two years.

  • 2 Chr 18:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2 And after some years he went down to Samaria to see Ahab. And Ahab made a feast for him and the people who were with him, putting to death great numbers of sheep and oxen; and he got Jehoshaphat to go with him to Ramoth-gilead.

    3 For Ahab, king of Israel, said to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he said, I am as you are, and my people as your people; we will be with you in the war.

  • 2 Kgs 3:1
    69%

    1 And Jehoram, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; and he was king for twelve years.

  • 2 Chr 22:5
    69%

    5 Acting on their suggestion, he went with Jehoram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the bowmen.

  • 2 Kgs 8:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15 Now on the day after, Hazael took the bed-cover, and making it wet with water, put it over Ben-hadad's face, causing his death: and Hazael became king in his place.

    16 In the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became king.

  • 2 Kgs 1:17
    69%

    17 So death came to him, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah. And Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of the rule of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; because he had no son.

  • Jer 48:42
    68%

    42 And Moab will come to an end as a people, because he has been lifting himself up against the Lord.

  • Amos 2:1
    68%

    1 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.

  • 1 Kgs 20:13
    68%

    13 Then a prophet came up to Ahab, king of Israel, and said, The Lord says, Have you seen all this great army? See, I will give it into your hands today, and you will see that I am the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 13:3
    68%

    3 So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the power of Hazael, king of Aram, and into the power of Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, again and again.

  • 1 Kgs 20:43
    68%

    43 Then the king of Israel went back to his house, bitter and angry, and came to Samaria.

  • 1 Chr 19:1
    68%

    1 Now it came about after this that death came to Nahash, the king of the children of Ammon, and his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 13:24
    68%

    24 Then Hazael, king of Aram, came to his end; and Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 13:22
    68%

    22 And Israel was crushed under the power of Hazael, king of Aram, all the days of Jehoahaz.

  • 2 Chr 18:28
    68%

    28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead.

  • 1 Kgs 22:29
    68%

    29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead.

  • Judg 4:1
    67%

    1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord when Ehud was dead.

  • Judg 11:4
    67%

    4 Now after a time the children of Ammon made war against Israel.