The Second Book of Kings (WEB)
3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. 3:2He did that which was evil in the sight of
Yahweh, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his
father had made. 3:3Nevertheless he cleaved to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which
he made Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it. 3:4Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master;
and he rendered to the king of Israel the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred
thousand rams. 3:5But it happened, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against
the king of Israel. 3:6King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel. 3:7He
went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against
me: will you go with me against Moab to battle? He said, I will go up: I am as you are, my people
as your people, my horses as your horses. 3:8He said, Which way shall we go up? He answered,
The way of the wilderness of Edom. 3:9So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the
king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host,
nor for the animals that followed them. 3:10The king of Israel said, Alas! for Yahweh has called
these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab. 3:11But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't
there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him? One of the king of
Israel's servants answered, Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of
Elijah. 3:12Jehoshaphat said, The word of Yahweh is with him. So the king of Israel and
Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him. 3:13Elisha said to the king of Israel, What
have I to do with you? get you to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.
The king of Israel said to him, No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver
them into the hand of Moab. 3:14Elisha said, As Yahweh of Hosts lives, before whom I stand,
surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look
toward you, nor see you. 3:15But now bring me a minstrel. It happened, when the minstrel played,
that the hand of Yahweh came on him. 3:16He said, Thus says Yahweh, Make this valley full of
trenches. 3:17For thus says Yahweh, You shall not see wind, neither shall you see rain; yet that
valley shall be filled with water, and you shall drink, both you and your cattle and your animals.
3:18This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh: he will also deliver the Moabites into your
hand. 3:19You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree,
and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones. 3:20It happened in the
morning, about the time of offering the offering, that behold, there came water by the way of
Edom, and the country was filled with water. 3:21Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings
had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on
armor, and upward, and stood on the border. 3:22They rose up early in the morning, and the sun
shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood: 3:23and they
said, This is blood; the kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each man his fellow: now
therefore, Moab, to the spoil. 3:24When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and
struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the
Moabites. 3:25They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his
stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in
Kir-hareseth only they left the stones of it; however the men armed with slings went about it, and
struck it. 3:26When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him
seven hundred men who drew sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.
3:27Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt
offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and
returned to their own land.
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