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offered him = offered him up. App-43.
a burnt offering. App-43. Recording a fact on which Mesha is silent on the Moabite stone. App-54.
the wall. i.e., the higher of the two. Hebrew. homah not kir as in verses: 2Ki_3:4, 2Ki_3:10.
indignation = wrath. This led probably to Moab's subsequent success.
they departed. This expresses the failure of Israel's expedition, while Mesha goes on to record his subsequent successes, which were great all the cities taken by him (App-54) being those belonging to Reuben and Gad.
from him: i.e. from the king of Moab.
their own. The Syriac and Vulgate have these words in the text.