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2 Kings 3:21-23
New Catholic Bible
2 Kings 3:21-23
New Catholic Bible
21 The Moabites heard that the kings were coming to fight against them, and they gathered together everyone who was old enough to put on armor and older and they stationed them on the border.
22 When they got up in the morning, the sun was shining on the water, and the Moabites saw that the water on the other side was as red as blood.[a] 23 They said, “This is blood. Surely the kings have attacked and killed one another. To the spoil, Moab!”
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- 2 Kings 3:22 A mirage caused by the rays of the rising sun on the desert, or else a coloring due to the ocher or red clay that was so plentiful as to give the region its name (Edom means “red”).
