2KI-3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel

in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and

reigned twelve years.

2KI-3:2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not

like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image

of Baal that his father had made.

2KI-3:3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the

son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not

therefrom.

2KI-3:4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered

unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an

hundred thousand rams, with the wool.

2KI-3:5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king

of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

2KI-3:6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and

numbered all Israel.

2KI-3:7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah,

saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go

with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I

[am] as thou [art], my people as thy people, [and] my horses as

thy horses.

2KI-3:8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered,

The way through the wilderness of Edom.

2KI-3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and

the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days'

journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle

that followed them.

2KI-3:10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath

called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand

of Moab!

2KI-3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of

the LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by him? And one of the

king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here [is] Elisha

the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.

2KI-3:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him.

So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went

down to him.

2KI-3:13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to

do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the

prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him,

Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to

deliver them into the hand of Moab.

2KI-3:14 And Elisha said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before

whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of

Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor

see thee.

2KI-3:15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when

the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.

2KI-3:16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full

of ditches.

2KI-3:17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither

shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water,

that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.

2KI-3:18 And this is [but] a light thing in the sight of the

LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.

2KI-3:19 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice

city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of

water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

2KI-3:20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat

offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way

of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

2KI-3:21 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.

2KI-3:22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun

shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the

other side [as] red as blood:

2KI-3:23 And they said, This [is] blood: the kings are surely

slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab,

to the spoil.

2KI-3:24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the

Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled

before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in

[their] country.

2KI-3:25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece

of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they

stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees:

only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the

slingers went about [it], and smote it.

2KI-3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too

sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew

swords, to break through [even] unto the king of Edom: but they

could not.

2KI-3:27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in

his stead, and offered him [for] a burnt offering upon the wall.

And there was great indignation against Israel: and they

departed from him, and returned to [their own] land.

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