2 Kings 3:23

“And they said, this is blood, etc.] They were very confident of it, having no notion of water, there having been no rain for some time; and perhaps it was not usual to see water at any time in this place: the kings are surely slain; they and their forces: and they have smitten one another; having quarrelled either about their religion, or about want of water, and the distress they were come into through it, laying the blame of their coming out to war, or of their coming that way, on one another; and the Moabites might rather think something of this kind had happened, from what had lately been done among themselves, and their allies, (<142023>2 Chronicles 20:23) now therefore, Moab, to the…”

“The sun had risen with a ruddy light, as is frequently the case after a storm (compare Matthew 16:3), nearly over the Israelite camp, and the pits, deep but with small mouths, gleaming redly through the haze which would lie along the newly moistened valley, seemed to the Moabites like pools of blood. The preceding year, they and their allies had mutually destroyed each other 2 Chronicles 20:23. It seemed to them, from their knowledge of the jealousies between Judah, Israel, and Edom, not unlikely that a similar calamity had now befallen their foes. return to 'Top of Page'”

“This is blood: Kg2 6:18-20, Kg2 7:6 slain: Heb. destroyed now therefore: Exo 15:9; Jdg 5:30; Ch2 20:25; Isa 10:14 4 Kings (2 Kings) 3:24”