1 E Jorão, filho de Acabe, começou a reinar sobre Israel, em Samaria, no décimo oitavo ano de Jeosafá, rei de Judá; e reinou doze anos.
2 E fez o que era mau aos olhos do Senhor; porém não como seu pai, nem como sua mãe; porque tirou a estátua de Baal, que seu pai fizera.
3 Contudo aderiu aos pecados de Jeroboão, filho de Nebate, com que fizera Israel pecar; não se apartou deles.
4 Então Mesa, rei dos moabitas, era criador de gado, e pagava de tributo, ao rei de Israel, cem mil cordeiros, e cem mil carneiros com a sua lã.
5 Sucedeu, porém, que, morrendo Acabe, o rei dos moabitas se rebelou contra o rei de Israel.
6 Por isso Jorão ao mesmo tempo saiu de Samaria, e fez revista de todo o Israel.
7 E foi, e mandou dizer a Jeosafá, rei de Judá: O rei dos moabitas se rebelou contra mim; irás tu comigo à guerra contra os moabitas? E disse ele: Subirei; e eu serei como tu, o meu povo como o teu povo, e os meus cavalos como os teus cavalos.
8 E ele disse: Por que caminho subiremos? Então disse ele: Pelo caminho do deserto de Edom.
9 E partiram o rei de Israel, o rei de Judá e o rei de Edom; e andaram rodeando com uma marcha de sete dias, e não havia água para o exército e nem para o gado que os seguia.
10 Então disse o rei de Israel: Ah! o Senhor chamou a estes três reis, para entregá-los nas mãos dos moabitas.
11 E disse Jeosafá: Não há aqui algum profeta do Senhor, para que consultemos ao Senhor por ele? Então respondeu um dos servos do rei de Israel, dizendo: Aqui está Eliseu, filho de Safate, que derramava água sobre as mãos de Elias.
12 E disse Jeosafá: Está com ele a palavra do Senhor. Então o rei de Israel, Jeosafá, e o rei de Edom desceram a ter com ele.
13 Mas Eliseu disse ao rei de Israel: Que tenho eu contigo? Vai aos profetas de teu pai e aos profetas de tua mãe. Porém o rei de Israel lhe disse: Não, porque o Senhor chamou a estes três reis para entregá-los nas mãos dos moabitas.
14 E disse Eliseu: Vive o Senhor dos Exércitos, em cuja presença estou, que se eu não respeitasse a presença de Jeosafá, rei de Judá, não olharia para ti nem te veria.
15 Ora, pois, trazei-me um músico. E sucedeu que, tocando o músico, veio sobre ele a mão do Senhor.
16 E disse: Assim diz o Senhor: Fazei neste vale muitas covas.
17 Porque assim diz o Senhor: Não vereis vento, e não vereis chuva; todavia este vale se encherá de tanta água, que bebereis vós, o vosso gado e os vossos animais.
18 E ainda isto é pouco aos olhos do Senhor; também entregará ele os moabitas nas vossas mãos.
19 E ferireis a todas as cidades fortes, e a todas as cidades escolhidas, e todas as boas árvores cortareis, e entupireis todas as fontes de água, e danificareis com pedras todos os bons campos.
20 E sucedeu que, pela manhã, oferecendo-se a oferta de alimentos, eis que vinham as águas pelo caminho de Edom; e a terra se encheu de água.
21 Ouvindo, pois, todos os moabitas que os reis tinham subido para pelejarem contra eles, convocaram a todos os que estavam em idade de cingir cinto e daí para cima, e puseram-se às fronteiras.
22 E, levantando-se de madrugada, e saindo o sol sobre as águas, viram os moabitas, defronte deles, as águas vermelhas como sangue.
23 E disseram: Isto é sangue; certamente que os reis se destruíram à espada e se mataram um ao outro! Agora, pois, à presa, moabitas!
24 Porém, chegando eles ao arraial de Israel, os israelitas se levantaram, e feriram os moabitas, os quais fugiram diante deles e ainda entraram nas suas terras, ferindo ali também os moabitas.
25 E arrasaram as cidades, e cada um lançou a sua pedra em todos os bons campos, e os entulharam, e entupiram todas as fontes de água, e cortaram todas as boas árvores, até que só em Quir-Haresete deixaram ficar as pedras, mas os fundeiros a cercaram e a feriram.
26 Mas, vendo o rei dos moabitas que a peleja prevalecia contra ele, tomou consigo setecentos homens que sacavam espada, para romperem contra o rei de Edom, porém não puderam.
27 Então tomou a seu filho primogênito, que havia de reinar em seu lugar, e o ofereceu em holocausto sobre o muro; pelo que houve grande indignação em Israel; por isso retiraram-se dele, e voltaram para a sua terra.
1 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 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 But still he did the same sins which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do; he went on in them.
4 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 But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel.
6 At that time, King Jehoram went out from Samaria and got all Israel together in fighting order.
7 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 And he said, Which way are we to go? And he said in answer, By the waste land of Edom.
9 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.