New Revised Standard Version
So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.

Contemporary English Version
Elisha died and was buried. Every year in the spring, Moab's leaders sent raiding parties into Israel.

New American Bible
And so Elisha died and was buried. At that time of year, bands of Moabites used to raid the land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Eliseus died, and they buried him. And the rovers from Moab came into the land the same year.

And Eliseus died, and they buried him. And the rovers from Moab came into the land the same year.

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buried him

2 Chronicles 24:16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good to Israel, and to his house.

Acts 8:2 And devout men took order for Stephen's funeral and made great mourning over him.

the bands

2 Kings 5:2 Now there had gone out robbers from Syria, and had led away captive out of the land of Israel, a little maid, and she waited upon Naaman's wife.

2 Kings 6:23 And a great provision of meats was set before them, and they ate and drank; and he let them go: and they went away to their master: and the robbers of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

2 Kings 24:2 And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees, and the rovers of Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and the rovers of the children of Ammon: and he sent them against Juda, to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servants, the prophets.

the Moabites

2 Kings 3:5,24-27 And when Achab was dead, he broke the league which he had made with the king of Israel. . . .

Judges 3:12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: who strengthened against them Eglon, king of Moab: because they did evil in his sight.

Judges 6:3-6 And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations, came up: . . .