| 1 mapa | Joram, Ahabin poika, tuli Samarian kaupungissa Israelin kuninkaaksi Juudan kuninkaan Josafatin kahdeksantenatoista hallitusvuotena. Hän hallitsi kaksitoista vuotta. | And Jehoram, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; and he was king for twelve years. |
| 2 | Joram teki sitä, mikä on väärää Herran silmissä, ei kuitenkaan niin paljon kuin isänsä ja äitinsä. Hän poisti isänsä pystyttämän Baalin kivipatsaan | He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made. |
| 3 | mutta piti edelleen kiinni siitä väärästä jumalanpalveluksesta, jolla Jerobeam, Nebatin poika, oli johdattanut Israelin synnintekoon. Siitä synnistä hän ei luopunut. | But still he did the same sins which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do; he went on in them. |
| 4 mapa | Moabin kuninkaan Mesan maassa oli suuria lammaslaumoja, ja hänet oli velvoitettu toimittamaan Israelin kuninkaalle määräajoin verona satatuhatta karitsaa ja satatuhatta keritsemätöntä pässiä. | Now Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep-farmer; and he gave regularly to the king of Israel the wool from a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand sheep. |
| 5 mapa | Mutta kun Ahab kuoli, Moabin kuningas ei enää tunnustanut Israelin kuninkaan herruutta. | But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel. |
| 6 mapa | Kuningas Joram lähti silloin heti Samariasta ja katsasti koko Israelin sotajoukon. | At that time, King Jehoram went out from Samaria and got all Israel together in fighting order. |
| 7 mapa | Israelin ja Juudan kuninkaat lähtivät yhdessä Edomin kuninkaan kanssa liikkeelle. Kun he olivat marssineet seitsemän päivää, vesi oli lopussa. Sitä ei ollut sotilaille sen paremmin kuin joukkojen perässä kulkeville kuormajuhdillekaan. | And he sent to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has got free from my authority: will you go with me to make war on Moab? And he said, I will go with you: I am as you are, my people as your people, and my horses as your horses. |
| 8 mapa | Sillä näin sanoo Herra: 'Te ette näe tuulta ettekä sadetta, mutta tuo puronuoma tulee täyteen vettä. Siitä te saatte juodaksenne, ja niin myös teidän karjanne ja juhtanne.' | And he said, Which way are we to go? And he said in answer, By the waste land of Edom. |
| 9 mapa | Tämä on Herralle vähäinen asia. Hän antaa myös Moabin teidän käsiinne. | So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom by a roundabout way for seven days: and there was no water for the army or for the beasts they had with them. |
| 10 mapa | Kun seuraavana aamuna oli ruokauhrin aika, Edomin suunnalta alkoi virrata vettä, ja se peitti tulvana koko tienoon. | And the king of Israel said, Here is trouble: for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them into the hands of Moab. |
| 11 | Kun Moabiin levisi tieto, että kuninkaat olivat lähteneet matkaan hyökätäkseen sinne, kaikki asekuntoiset miehet nuorukaisista alkaen kutsuttiin koolle, ja he asettuivat maan rajalle. | But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no prophet of the Lord here, through whom we may get directions from the Lord? And one of the king of Israel's men said in answer, Elisha, the son of Shaphat, is here, who was servant to Elijah. |
| 12 mapa | Mutta kun moabilaiset aamulla heräsivät, aurinko paistoi veden pintaan ja vesi näytti punaiselta kuin veri. | 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. |
| 13 mapa | Mutta kun he tulivat Israelin leiriin, israelilaiset kävivätkin heidän kimppuunsa ja ahdistivat heitä niin, että heidän oli lähdettävä pakoon. Israelilaiset ajoivat hellittämättä moabilaisia takaa ja löivät heidät perin pohjin. | But Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father and your mother. And the king of Israel said, No; for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them up into the hands of Moab. |
| 14 | He tekivät kaupungeista raunioita, ja kaikki hyvät pellot tulivat täyteen kiviä, kun kukin sotilas heitti pellolle kiven. He tukkivat jokaisen vesilähteen ja kaatoivat kaikki arvokkaat puut. Lopulta vain Kir-Haresetin muurit olivat pystyssä, ja sielläkin linkomiehet saartoivat kaupungin ja ahdistivat sitä. | Then Elisha said, By the life of the Lord of armies whose servant I am, if it was not for the respect I have for Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, I would not give a look at you, or see you. |
| 15 | Kun Moabin kuningas huomasi, ettei hän enää kyennyt pitämään puoliaan, hän otti mukaansa seitsemänsataa miekkamiestä ja yritti murtautua läpi Edomin kuninkaan joukkojen kohdalta. Se ei kuitenkaan onnistunut. | But now, get me a player of music, and it will come about that while the man is playing, the hand of the Lord will come on me and I will give you the word of the Lord: and they got a player of music, and while the man was playing, the hand of the Lord was on him. |
| 16 | Silloin hän otti esikoispoikansa, josta piti tulla kuningas hänen jälkeensä, ja uhrasi hänet polttouhrina muurilla. Israelilaiset joutuivat niin suuren kauhun valtaan, että he lopettivat piirityksen ja palasivat maahansa. | And he said, The Lord says, I will make this valley full of water-holes. |
| 17 | For the Lord says, Though you see no wind or rain, the valley will be full of water, and you and your armies and your beasts will have drink. | |
| 18 | And this will be only a small thing to the Lord: in addition he will give the Moabites into your hands. | |
| 19 | And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones. | |
| 20 mapa | Now in the morning, about the time when the offering was made, they saw water flowing from the direction of Edom till the country was full of water. | |
| 21 | Now all Moab, hearing that the kings had come to make war against them, got together all who were able to take up arms and went forward to the edge of the country. | |
| 22 | And early in the morning they got up, when the sun was shining on the water, and they saw the water facing them as red as blood. | |
| 23 mapa | Then they said, This is blood: it is clear that destruction has come on the kings; they have been fighting one another: now come, Moab, let us take their goods. | |
| 24 | But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them; | |
| 25 mapa | Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it. | |
| 26 mapa | And when the king of Moab saw that the fight was going against him, he took with him seven hundred men armed with swords, with the idea of forcing a way through to the king of Aram, but they were not able to do so. | |
| 27 | Then he took his oldest son, who would have been king after him, offering him as a burned offering on the wall. So there was great wrath against Israel; and they went away from him, back to their country. |