2nd Kings Chapter 3 verse 16 Holy Bible
And he said, Thus saith Jehovah, Make this valley full of trenches.
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And he said, The Lord says, I will make this valley full of water-holes.
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And he said, Thus saith Jehovah: Make this valley full of ditches.
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And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.
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And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.
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He said, Thus says Yahweh, Make this valley full of trenches.
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and he saith, `Thus said Jehovah, Make this valley ditches -- ditches;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches; rather, full of pits (βοθύβους, LXX.). The object was to detain the water which would otherwise have all run off down the torrent-course in a very little time.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) Make.--Right (infinitive, equivalent to an energetic imperative).Valley.--Nahal, wady, torrent-bed, gully. According to Thenius, "the brook Zered" of Deuteronomy 2:13 is meant; the present Wady el-Ahsy, (or el-Hasa) which forms the natural southern boundary of Moab, and from which several gorges lead up into the Moabite highlands. (See Isaiah 15:7.)Full of ditches.--Literally, pits, pits. (Comp. Genesis 14:10 : "Wells, wells of bitumen.") The pits were to gather the water, which otherwise would soon have run away in the bed of the torrent (Jeremiah 14:3-4). The style of the oracle is stamped with the liveliness and originality of historic truth.
