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<p class="tab-1">We are now called to attend the public affairs of Israel, in which we shall find Elisha concerned. Here is, I. The general character of Jehoram, king of Israel, <a class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.3.1-2Kgs.3.3" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.3.1-2Kgs.3.3">2 Kgs. 3:1-3</a>. II. A war with Moab, in which Jehoram and his allies were engaged, <a class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.3.4-2Kgs.3.8" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.3.4-2Kgs.3.8">2 Kgs. 3:4-8</a>. III. The straits which the confederate army were reduced to in their expedition against Moab, and their consulting Elisha in that distress, with the answer of peace he gave them, <a class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.3.9-2Kgs.3.19" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.3.9-2Kgs.3.19">2 Kgs. 3:9-19</a>. IV. The glorious issue of this campaign (<a class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.3.20-2Kgs.3.25" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.3.20-2Kgs.3.25">2 Kgs. 3:20-25</a>) and the barbarous method the king of Moab took to oblige the confederate army to retire, <a class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.3.26,2Kgs.3.27" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.3.26,2Kgs.3.27"><span class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.3.26">2 Kgs. 3:26</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.3.27">27</span></a>. The house of Ahab is doomed to destruction; and, though in this chapter we have both its character and its condition better than before, yet the threatened ruin is not far off.</p>
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