2 Kings 3:16
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New International Version (©1984)
and he said, "This is what the LORD says: Make this valley full of ditches.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He said, "Thus says the LORD, 'Make this valley full of trenches.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He said, "This is what the LORD says: Make this valley full of ditches.

King James Bible
And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.

American King James Version
And he said, Thus said the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.

American Standard Version
And he said, Thus saith Jehovah, Make this valley full of trenches.

Bible in Basic English
And he said, The Lord says, I will make this valley full of water-holes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of this torrent full of ditches.

Darby Bible Translation
And he said, Thus saith Jehovah: Make this valley full of ditches.

English Revised Version
And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of trenches.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.

World English Bible
He said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Make this valley full of trenches.'

Young's Literal Translation
and he saith, 'Thus said Jehovah, Make this valley ditches -- ditches;

Geneva Study Bible

And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. Make this valley full of ditches-capable of holding water.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:6-19 The king of Israel laments their distress, and the danger they were in. He called these kings together, yet he charges it upon Providence. Thus the foolishness of man perverteth his way, and then his heart fretteth against the Lord, Pr 19:3. It was well that Jehoshaphat inquired of the Lord now, but it had been much better if he had done it before he engaged in this war. Good men sometimes neglect their duty, till necessity and affliction drive them to it. Wicked people often fare the better for the friendship and society of the godly. To try their faith and obedience, Elisha bids them make the valley full of pits to receive water. Those who expect God's blessings, must dig pools for the rain to fill, as in the valley of Baca, and thus make even that a well, Ps 84:6. We need not inquire whence the water came. God is not tied to second causes. They that sincerely seek for the dew of God's grace, shall have it, and by it be made more than conquerors.


2 Kings 3:15 "But now bring me a minstrel." And it came about, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
2 Kings 3:17 "For thus says the LORD, 'You shall not see wind nor shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, both you and your cattle and your beasts. (NASB ©1995)

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