King James Version
2 Kings 3:5 in the King James Version says “But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.”
2 Kings 3:5 · KJV
Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.
And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
KJV Study — Public Domain
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“was dead”
H4194death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
“But it came to pass when Ahab”
H256achab, the name of a king of israel and of a prophet at babylon
“rebelled”
H6586to break away (from just authority), i.e., trespass, apostatize, quarrel
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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