Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 3:21
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2 Kings3:21
21 ¶ And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour , and upward, and stood in the border .
Heb. to gird on a girdle, i. e. a Military Girdle, to which the Sword was fastened, 2 Sam. 20. 8. 1 King. 2. 5.
Or, in that border, to wit, of their Countrey, which was towards Edom, which way they understood the Kings came. Here they stood probably to defend the passages into their Countrey.
Marginal references: Heb. were cried together; Heb. gird himself with a girdle.
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