e Evening-Sacrifice unqueſtionably was, 4s 3- 1: there being the ſame reaſon for ſubſtance tor borh times. At this time Elſhah joineu his prayers with the prayers of Gods people, eſpecially thoſe at Fe- ruſalem,- as Elijah had done at a like time, 1 Kings +8. 29. and thz: time God che to anſwer his and their prayers, and to work this Miracle, that thereby he might determine the Controverſie betwee:: the Iſraelites and the Jews, abour the place aiid manner of worthip and give apublick Teſtimony from Heaven for the Jews, and again: the J/raelires. þ Miraculouſly produced out of ſome Rock or Vei; of the Earth. 7 From thoſe parts which were towards Edu.
21 QC And whenall the Moabites heard that the king: were come up to tight againit them, they f gathered al. that were abie to F put on armour &, and upward, and
ood in the border /. k Heb. To gird on a girdle, 1. e. a Military Girdle, to which thc
Shin, Sword was faſtened, 2 Sam: 20: 8. 1 Kings 2.5. IOr, in that border, ! dich g tO wit, of their Countrey, which was rowards Edom, which way
they underſtood the Kings came. Here chey ſtood probably ro dc- tend the Paſlages into their Countrey-
22 Andthey role up eaily in the morning, ani the
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ſun ſhone upon the water, and the Moabites ſaw the water on the other fide 2s red as blood m.
7 Becauſe of the Morning-Sun, which mecting with the Vapours that aroſe trom the Earth, and ſhining through them upon the Wa- ter, gave it a reddiſh TinCture. God aifo {o ordered things, that their Senſes and Fancies were diſturbed, orthe Air ſo diſpoſed, that ir might ſeem of this Colour. And they might more eaſily miſtake this tor Blood, becauſe they knew that that ground was generally dry, and without any Trenches or Streams of Water,now eſpecially in this dry Seaſon, there being no noiſe of Wind and Rain. v. 17. And they might juſtly think that the three Kings being divided in their Religion and Incerefts, and diſcontented for want of Water, might fall inro Diflentions, and Heats, and mutual Slaughters, of which they had a late Example, 2 Chron. 20. 22, 23.
23 Andthey tatd, This blood : the kings are ſurely i ain, and they have ſmitten one anocher : now there- , xx.q,- tore Moab to the ſpoil ». | d:{troyed;
7 They were ſo highly confident, that they ſend no Scouts, but
arch thither with their « hole Army and that in great Diſorder. V/ herein there was alto a Divine Hand, ſtrengthening them in their Miitakes, and hardening them to their DeftruQtion.
24 And when they came to th: camp of Iſrael, the I{raclites roſe up and ſmote the Moabites, ſo that they ed betore them : but || they wer:t fo; ward ſmiring the (Q,, zz Moabites, even in their countrey 0. ſmote in
o They purſued them ro their own Countrey, and entred it with it, even and after them ; the paſſes, which before the Moavites defended, ſmitings being now open for them.
25 And they beat down the cities, andon every good piece of land caſt every man his ſtone p, and filled ir, and chey ſtopped all the weils of water, and felled all the z00dtrecs :; | only in Kirharaſethg lefc they the ſtenes + Heb: chereof 7 ; Howbeit the flingers / went about zr, and ,,;7 {more it 7, left the
p The Stones which happily had been with great care and pains Fones
pickt out of the Land, and laid in heaps after the manner, they vhereof in diſpcifcd again, and flew the people, who ſhould have cleanted Kir-hards them again. q Which was the Royal and ſtrongeſt City of the (ch. Moabites, 1ja: 16: 7, 11, 1ato which the remaant of the Moabites were gathered, where alſo their King was with them. » The Walls and Buildings of this Ciry only were left; other Cities and, in amanner, cher whole Countrey being utrerly deſtroyed, ſ Either, Firſt, Such as flung imga!l Stones againſt thofe that ſrood upon the Wall to defend it. Or rather, Secondly, Such as flung great Stones againſt the Walls to break them down, according to the manner of thoſe rimes. #7. e Made Breaches in the Walls, by which they mighr enter into the City, and take it.
26 4 And when the king of Moab ſaw that the battel was too fore for him, he cook wich him ſeven hundred men that d:ew ſwords, to breakthrough even unto tHe «ing of Edom # : but they coulg not. hg
« Lat being unable to defend the City longer, he might i. bs in eicape : which he chote to do on the King of Edoms quarter : vEcauic he thought either that his was the weakeſt fide : or, that ie would more willngly ſuffer him to elcape, becauſe he was not o hearty in the War as the reſt, bur only forced to it, and he might 1creafrer have tome occaiton of the King of Moab to joyn with hun, as before he had, 2 Chron. 20, 22
27\'IThen he took his eideſt ſon x that ſhould have cigned 1a his ttead, and * otiered him for a burnt-offe- * a qc 111g upon the wall y, and there was f great indignation 2. r: gaiulit Iſrael z, and they departed from him, and re- t Heb. .urned tO their own land. een” >