📖WEB · 2 Kings 3:5
What does 2 Kings 3:5 mean?
"But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel."
— 2 Kings 3:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from them.
Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.
But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.
He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab to battle?” He said, “I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
He said, “Which way shall we go up?” He answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”
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