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Jehoram Meets Moab Rebellion

3JORAM SON of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.H3088H1121H256H4427H3478H8111H8083H6240H8141H3092H4428H3063H4427H8147H6240H81412He did evil in the sight of the Lord, but not like his father and mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.H6213H7451H5869H3068H1H517H5493H4676H1168H1H62133Yet he clung to the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not from them.H1692H2403H3379H1121H5028H3478H2398H54934Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and paid in tribute to the king of Israel [annually] 100,000 lambs and 100,000 rams, with the wool.H4338H4428H4124H5349H7725H4428H3478H3967H505H3733H3967H505H352H67855But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.H256H4194H4428H4124H6586H4428H34786So King Joram went out of Samaria at that time and mustered all Israel.H4428H3088H3318H8111H3117H6485H34787And he sent to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to war against Moab? And he said, I will go; I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.H3212H7971H3092H4428H3063H559H4428H4124H6586H3212H4124H4421H559H5927H5971H5971H5483H54838Joram said, Which way shall we go up? Jehoshaphat answered, The way through the Wilderness of Edom.H559H1870H5927H559H1870H4057H1239So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. They made a circuit of seven days' journey, but there was no water for the army or for the animals following them.H4428H3478H3212H4428H3063H4428H123H5437H7651H3117H1870H4325H4264H929H727210Then the king of Israel said, Alas! The Lord has called [us] three kings together to be delivered into Moab's hand!H4428H3478H559H162H3068H7121H7969H4428H7121H5414H3027H412411But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no prophet of the Lord here by whom we may inquire of the Lord? One of the king of Israel's servants answered, Elisha son of Shaphat, who served Elijah, is here.H3092H559H5030H3068H1875H3068H259H4428H3478H5650H6030H559H477H1121H8202H3332H4325H3027H45212Jehoshaphat said, The word of the Lord is with him. So Joram king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to Elisha.H3092H559H1697H3068H3426H4428H3478H3092H4428H123H338113And Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your [wicked] father Ahab and your [wicked] mother Jezebel. But the king of Israel said to him, No, for the Lord has called [us] three kings together to be delivered into the hand of Moab.H477H559H4428H3478H3212H5030H1H5030H517H4428H3478H559H3068H7121H7969H4428H7121H5414H3027H412414And Elisha said, As the Lord of hosts lives, before Whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would neither look at you nor see you [King Joram].H477H559H3068H6635H2416H6440H5975H3884H5375H6440H3092H4428H3063H5027H720015But now bring me a minstrel. And while the minstrel played, the hand {and} power of the Lord came upon [Elisha].H3947H5059H5059H5059H3027H306816And he said, Thus says the Lord: Make this [dry] brook bed full of trenches.H559H559H3068H6213H5158H135617For thus says the Lord: You shall not see wind or rain, yet that ravine shall be filled with water, so you, your cattle, and your beasts [of burden] may drink.H559H3068H7200H7307H7200H1653H5158H4390H4325H8354H4735H92918This is but a light thing in the sight of the Lord. He will deliver the Moabites also into your hands.H7043H5869H3068H5414H4124H302719You 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.H5221H4013H5892H4004H5892H5307H2896H6086H5640H4599H4325H3510H2896H2513H6820In the morning, when the sacrifice was offered, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.H1242H4503H5927H935H4325H1870H123H776H4390H432521When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, young and old, gathered and drew up at the border.H4124H8085H4428H5927H3898H6817H2296H2290H4605H5975H136622When they rose up early next morning, and the sun shone upon the water, the Moabites saw the water across from them as red as blood.H7925H1242H8121H2224H4325H4124H7200H4325H5048H122H181823And they said, This is blood; the kings have surely been fighting and have slain one another. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!H559H1818H4428H2717H2717H5221H376H7453H4124H799824But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them. And they went forward, slaying the Moabites as they went.H935H4264H3478H3478H6965H5221H4124H5127H6440H5221H5221H412425They beat down the cities [walls], and on every good piece of land every man cast a stone, covering it [with stones]. And they stopped all the springs of water and felled all the good trees, until only the stones [of the walls of Moab's capital city] of Kir-hareseth were left standing, and the slingers surrounded and took it.H2040H5892H2896H2513H7993H376H68H4390H5640H4599H4325H5307H2896H6086H7025H7604H68H7051H5437H522126And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was against him, he took with him 700 swordsmen to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not.H4428H4124H7200H4421H2388H3947H7651H3967H376H8025H2719H1234H4428H123H320127Then he [Moab's king] took his eldest son, who was to reign in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall [in full view of the horrified enemy kings]. And there was great indignation, wrath, {and} bitterness against Israel; and they [his allies Judah and Edom] withdrew from [Joram] and returned to their own land.H3947H1060H1121H4427H5927H5930H2346H1419H7110H3478H5265H7725H776