2 Kings 1:1

King James Version

Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
After Ahab’s death, Moab rebelled against Israel.

Hebrew Names Version
Mo'av rebelled against Yisra'el after the death of Ach'av.

English Standard Version
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.

New Century Version
After Ahab died, Moab broke away from Israel's rule.

New English Translation
After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel.

Amplified Bible
Now Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

New American Standard Bible
Now Moab broke with Israel after the death of Ahab.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab:

Legacy Standard Bible
Now Moab revolted against Israel after the death of Ahab.

Contemporary English Version
Soon after King Ahab of Israel died, the country of Moab rebelled against his son King Ahaziah. One day, Ahaziah fell through the wooden slats around the porch on the flat roof of his palace in Samaria, and he was badly injured. So he sent some messengers to the town of Ekron with orders to ask the god Baalzebub if he would get well.

Complete Jewish Bible
After Ach'av's death Mo'av rebelled against Isra'el.

Darby Translation
And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

Easy-to-Read Version
After King Ahab died, Moab broke away from Israel's rule.

George Lamsa Translation
THEN Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

Good News Translation
After the death of King Ahab of Israel the country of Moab rebelled against Israel.

Lexham English Bible
Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

Literal Translation
And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The Moabites also fell awaye from Israel, whan Achab was deed.

American Standard Version
And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

Bible in Basic English
After the death of Ahab, Moab made itself free from the authority of Israel.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Ahab.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

King James Version (1611)
Then Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Ahab.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moab repelled against Israel after the death of Achaab.

English Revised Version
And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

Berean Standard Bible
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Moab trespasside ayens Israel, after that Achab was deed.

Young's Literal Translation
And Moab transgresseth against Israel after the death of Ahab,

Update Bible Version
And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

World English Bible
Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

New King James Version
Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

New Living Translation
After King Ahab's death, the land of Moab rebelled against Israel.

New Life Bible
Now Moab turned against Israel after the death of Ahab.

New Revised Standard
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then Moab revolted against Israel, after the death of Ahab.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Achab.

Revised Standard Version
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.

THE MESSAGE
After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. ² And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease. ³ But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? ⁴ Now therefore thus saith the Lord , Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed. ⁵ And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back? ⁶ And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord , Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. ⁷ And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words? ⁸ And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Moab: Numbers 24:7, 2 Samuel 8:2, 1 Chronicles 18:2, Psalms 60:8

after the: 2 Kings 3:4, 2 Kings 3:5, 2 Kings 8:20, 2 Kings 8:22

Reciprocal: 2 Peter 3:16 - speaking

Cross-References

Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:16
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Genesis 1:17
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

Genesis 1:19
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

Genesis 1:30
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. Which had been in subjection to them from the times of David, 2 Samuel 8:2 refusing to pay a tribute as they had done; taking advantage of Ahab's ill success with the king of Syria, and of his death, and the condition and circumstances of his successor.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Moabites, who had once lorded over Israel Judges 3:12-14, were reduced to subjection by David, and treated with extreme severity (marginal reference). In the time of Ahab they were dependent on the kingdom of Israel, to which it has been generally supposed that they fell at the separation of Israel from Judah. The Moabite monument (see 2 Kings 3:4), discovered in 1869, has now given reason to believe that they then recovered their independence, but were again reduced by Omri, who, with his son Ahab, is said (in round numbers) to have “oppressed” them for “forty years.” Ahab’s death was seized upon as an occasion for revolt, and Moab (perhaps owing to Ahaziah’s sickness) easily regained her independence.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

THE SECOND BOOK OF THE KINGS,

OTHERWISE CALLED THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS

-Year from the Creation, according to the English Bible, 3108.

-Year before the birth of Christ, 892.

-Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity 896.

-Year since the Deluge, according to Archbishop Usher and the English Bible, 1452.

-Year of the Cali Yuga, or Indian era of the Deluge, 2206. Chronologers vary very considerably in their calculations of the time which elapsed between the flood and the birth of Abraham, the difference of the two extremes amounting to nine hundred years! Archbishop Usher's computation is from the common Hebrew text, with the single exception of fixing the birth of Abraham in the one hundred and thirtieth year of the life of his father, instead of the seventieth, in order to reconcile 2 Kings 11:26; 2 Kings 11:32, with Acts 7:4. But these passages are better reconciled, in the opinion of Dr. Kennicott, by stating (with the Samaritan Pentateuch) the whole life of Terah to have been one hundred and forty-five years, instead of two hundred and five, as in our common Bibles.

-Year from the destruction of Troy, according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 289.

-Year from the foundation of Solomon's temple, 115.

-Year since the division of Solomon's monarchy into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 79.

-Year before the era of Iphitus, who re-established the Olympic Games, three hundred and thirty-eight years after their institution by Hercules, or about eight hundred and eighty-four years before the commencement of the Christian era, 12.

-Year before the conquest of Coroebus at Elis, usually styled the first Olympiad, (being the 28th Olympiad after their re-establishment by Iphitus,) 120.

-Year before the Varronian or generally received era of the building of Rome, 143.

-Year before the building of Rome, according to Cato and the Fasti Consulares, 144.

-Year before the building of Rome, according to Polybius, the historian, 145.

-Year before the building of Rome, according to Fabius Pictor, who lived about two hundred and twenty-five years before the Christian era, 149.

-Year before the commencement of the Nabonassarean era, 149. The years of this epoch contained uniformly 365 days, so that 1461 Nabonassarean were equal to 1460 Julian years. This era commenced on the fourth of the calends of March, (Feb. 26,) B.C. 747; which was the year in which Romulus laid the foundation of Rome, according to Fabius Pictor.

-Year of the Julian Period, 3818.

-Year of the Dionysian Period, 94.

-Cycle of the Sun, 10.

-Cycle of the Moon, 18.

-Year of Megacles, the sixth perpetual archon of the Athenians, 26.

-Ocrazeres, the immediate predecessor of Sardanapalus, was king over the Assyrians about this time, according to Strauchius: but when this king reigned is very uncertain, Scaliger fixing the fall of Sardanapalus, which ended the Assyrian empire, in the year of the Julian Period, 3841; Langius, in 3852 of the same epocha; and Eusebius, in the year before Christ, 820.

-Year of Agrippa Silvius, the eleventh king of the Latins, 20.

-Year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, 18.

-Year of Ahaziah, king of Israel, 2.

-Last year of the Prophet Elijah.

-Tenth year of Elisha.

CHAPTER I

Ahaziah, being hurt by a fall, sends messengers to Baal-zebub

to inquire whether he shall recover, 1, 2.

They are met by Elijah, who sends them back with the

information that he shall surely die, 3-8.

The king sends a captain and fifty men, to bring Elijah to

Samaria, on which fire comes down from heaven, and destroys

both him and his men, 9, 10.

Another captain and fifty men are sent, who are likewise

destroyed, 11, 12.

A third is sent, who behaves himself humbly, and Elijah is

commanded to accompany him; he obeys, comes to the king,

reproves his idolatry, and announces his death, 13-16.

Ahaziah dies and Jehoram reigns in his stead, 17, 18.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse 2 Kings 1:1. Moab rebelled — The Moabites had been subdued by David, and laid under tribute, 2 Kings 3:4, and 2 Samuel 8:2. After the division of the two kingdoms, the Moabites fell partly under the dominion of Israel, and partly under that of Judah, until the death of Ahab, when they arose and shook off this yoke. Jehoram confederated with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, in order to reduce them. See this war, 2 Kings 3:5.