II Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 379
The History of the People of Israel
of offering the gift, a Hood had come from the direction of Edom, and covered the country with water. As related, all Moab had heard that
the kings had come up to fight with them, and had convoked an armed force, and had advanced and were stationed near. They also awoke in the morning when the sun. shone upon the waters, and the Moabites at a distance saw the waters red, like T hat is blood! The kings have been fighting with the sword, and every man has struck his mate! So now, Moab, for And they advanced to the camp of Israel. But Israel arose and assailed Moab,
and they fled before them, and they attacked and defeated Moab, and destroyed the towns; and over all the beautiful gardens they spread stones and destroyed them, and filled up the wells of water, and felled all the pleasant trees to extirpate them. They brokedown the walled buildings, and tore up their foundations to the bottom. Consequently the king of Moab saw they were stronger than him in war, so he took with himself seven hundred trained soldiers to break through the king of Edom, but was not able. Then he took his son, the eldest, who would have reigned after him, and offered him asa burnt— offering on the top of the wall, for he was furious against Israel} They afterwards retired from him and returned to their country. (8.0. 895.) Wipe frznrlyzfs Wihniu mth ber §¤1ts zrigzir fur Iyar @211ls. 4 Once a woman, awife of one of the Preachers, appealed to Alisha, saying,
1 V. 27. Something seems to have been
~omitted from the MS. by an old transcriber I think an account of the cature of the capital gof Moab and death of Moa ‘s king.—·—F. F. ‘ Your servant, my husband, has died,·-—and you know that your ser- vant reverenced the EvER—L1v1NG, but a creditor has come to take my two sons for his slaves. What can
I do for you? Inform me what furni— ture you have in the house. There is nothing
in the house of your handmaid, except a jar of oil. Go and bor-
row vessels from all the inhabitants of the street,·—~barrels of a not small capacity. Then come and shut the door behind you, and behind your sons, and pour into all these vessels, and fill them full. She accordingly went from him,
and shut the door behind herself and her sons who went with her, and they poured. And when they had filled the vessels, she said to one son, But he
There is not another Then the oil ceased! She therefore went to the MAN of GOD, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debts, and support yourself with the remainder! (ac. gro.) Elie Zahn uf §l;1t1tnm rxttcrlnius (Elislpt. At one period Alisha was travelling
to Shunam, where there was a great lady, who invited him to eat bread, and whenever he was passing by there to turn in to take food. The woman also said to her husband, ‘ See, now you know that he is aholy MAN of GOD who passes by us con- tinually. Let me furnish the little upper chamber, and put a bed there for him, with a table and a chair, so that when he comes to us he may And he came there that same day, and turned to go up to her to rest himself. He consequently said to Ghikhazi,
Call this Shunamessf And he called her, and she stood before him. Then he said to him, ‘Say to her, ‘ I see how you have cared for us with all this trouble. What can be done for you? Can I speak for you to the king? or to the commander of the army? But she answered, °‘ I reside amongst my own people. But what can be done for her ? ’ She grieves 379 I0 II I2
