2 Kings 3:16

World English Bible (2000)

He said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Make this valley full of trenches.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 2:16-18 : 16 "All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second. 17 "Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards. 18 "On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
  • 2 Kgs 4:3 : 3 Then he said, "Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don't borrow just a few.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 84%

    17 For thus says Yahweh, 'You will not see wind, neither will you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your animals.

    18 This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.

    19 You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.'"

    20 It happened in the morning, about the time of offering the offering, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

  • 1 Kgs 17:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

    3 "Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

  • 15 But now bring me a minstrel." It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Yahweh came on him.

  • 35 The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

  • 18 It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will come forth from the house of Yahweh, and will water the valley of Shittim.

  • 18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

  • 2 He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.

  • 1 Kgs 17:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

    8 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

  • 7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;

  • 16 Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

  • 25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."

  • 14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

  • 6 Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

  • 11 but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of the sky,

  • 35 He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

  • 5 So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

  • 3 Then he said, "Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don't borrow just a few.

  • 1 Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

  • 23 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 27 who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;'

  • 19 The men of the city said to Elisha, "Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land miscarries."

  • 4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

  • Ps 78:15-16
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    69%

    15 He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

    16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

  • Job 38:26-27
    2 verses
    69%

    26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

    27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

  • 15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

  • 33 He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

  • 3 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.

  • 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.

  • 28 A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because the Syrians have said, "Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys;" therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'"

  • 5 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

  • 3 For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns.

  • 68%

    14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.

    15 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

  • 14 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.'"

  • 11 But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?" One of the king of Israel's servants answered, "Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah."

  • 24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'

  • 10 You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.

  • 11 "For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

  • 5 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

  • 8 Then he said to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall the waters go] which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed.

  • 3 The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

  • 17 that Yahweh spoke to me, saying,

  • 41 Elijah said to Ahab, "Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain."