2 Kings 3:24-27
smote the Josh 8:20-22; Judg 20:40-46; 1Thess 5:3-4 went forward or, smote in it even beat down 2Kgs 3:19; Judg 9:45; 2Sam 8:2; Isa 37:26-27 stopped Gen 26:15, Gen 26:18; 2Chr 32:4 and felled Deut 20:19-20 only in etc. Heb. until he left the stones thereof in Kir-haraseth Kirharaseth Supposed to be the same as Ar, or Areopolis, the capital of Moab. Deut 2:9; Isa 16:7, Isa 16:11; Jer 48:31, Jer 48:36, Kir-heres unto the king of Edom 2Kgs 3:9; Amos 2:1 offered him In cases of great extremity, it was customary in various heathen nations, to offer human sacrifices, and even their own children. This was frequent among the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Scythians, Gauls, Africans, and others; and was the natural fruit of a religious system, which had for the objects of its worship cruel and merciless divinities. The king of Moab, in this case, sacrificed his son to obtain the favour of Chemosh his god, who, being a devil, delighted in blood and murder, and the destruction of mankind. The dearer anything was to them, the more acceptable those idolaters thought the sacrifice, and therefore burnt their children in the fire to their honour. Gen 22:2, Gen 22:13; Deut 12:31; Judg 11:31, Judg 11:39; Ps 106:37-38; Ezek 16:20; Mic 6:7 they departed 1Sam 14:36-46; 1Kgs 20:13, 1Kgs 20:28, 1Kgs 20:43
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