◄ 2 Kings 3:16 ►
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Good News Translation
and he said, "This is what the LORD says: 'Dig ditches all over this dry stream bed.

New Revised Standard Version
And he said, “Thus says the LORD, ‘I will make this wadi full of pools.’

Contemporary English Version
The LORD says that this dry riverbed will be filled with water.

New American Bible
and he announced: “Thus says the LORD: Provide many catch basins in this wadi.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of this torrent full of ditches.

Make this valley

2 Kings 4:3 And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels, not a few.

Numbers 2:18,16-18 On the west side shall be the camp of the sons of Ephraim, whose prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud. . . .

Context
Joram Overcomes Moab's Rebellion
…15But now bring me hither a minstrel. And when the minstrel played, the hand of the Lord came upon him, and he said: 16Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of this torrent full of ditches.17For thus saith the Lord: You shall not see wind, nor rain: and yet this channel shall be filled with waters, and you shall drink, you and your families, and your beasts.…
Cross References
2 Kings 3:15
But now bring me hither a minstrel. And when the minstrel played, the hand of the Lord came upon him, and he said:

2 Kings 3:17
For thus saith the Lord: You shall not see wind, nor rain: and yet this channel shall be filled with waters, and you shall drink, you and your families, and your beasts.

2 Kings 3:15
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