And this is a simple matter in the sight of the Lord; He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
Parallel translations
- WEB This is an easy thing in Yahweh’s sight. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
- KJV And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
- BSB This is a simple matter in the sight of the LORD, and He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
- NASB And this is an insignificant thing in the sight of the Lord; He will also give the Moabites into your hand.
- NLT But this is only a simple thing for the Lord, for he will make you victorious over the army of Moab!
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Quick answer
God calls the water a small matter and promises also to give Moab into Israel's hand. The greater victory is guaranteed alongside the lesser miracle.
Overview
What overwhelms the kings is "easy" in Yahweh's sight, magnifying His power over their crisis. Beyond water, God pledges total victory over Moab. The assurance reminds believers that no need or enemy is too great for the Lord to handle.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Luke 1:37For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”
- Jer 32:27“Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?
- Jer 32:17“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,
- 2 Kgs 20:10Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”
- Mark 10:27Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”
- Isa 49:6Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
- Eph 3:20Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
- Ezek 8:17Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.
- 1 Kgs 3:13I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.
- Isa 7:1–9In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
- 1 Kgs 20:13Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today; and you will know that I am Yahweh.’”
- 1 Kgs 20:28A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Because the Syrians have said, “Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys”; therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.’”
- Isa 7:13He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
- 1 Kgs 16:31As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
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