1 Jorão, filho de Acabe, começou a reinar sobre Israel, em Samaria, no décimo oitavo ano de Josafá, rei de Judá; e reinou doze anos. 2 Fez o que era mau perante o Senhor; porém não como seu pai, nem como sua mãe; porque tirou a coluna de Baal, que seu pai fizera. 3 Contudo, aderiu aos pecados de Jeroboão, filho de Nebate, que fizera pecar a Israel; não se apartou deles.
4 Então, Mesa, rei dos moabitas, era criador de gado e pagava o seu tributo ao rei de Israel com cem mil cordeiros e a lã de cem mil carneiros. 5 Tendo, porém, morrido Acabe, revoltou-se o rei de Moabe contra o rei de Israel. 6 Por isso, Jorão, ao mesmo tempo, saiu de Samaria e fez revista de todo o Israel. 7 Mandou dizer a Josafá, rei de Judá: O rei de Moabe se revoltou contra mim; irás tu comigo à guerra contra Moabe? Respondeu ele: Subirei; serei como tu és, o meu povo, como o teu povo, os meus cavalos, como os teus cavalos. 8 Então, perguntou Jorão: Por que caminho subiremos? Respondeu ele: Pelo caminho do deserto de Edom.
9 Partiram o rei de Israel, o rei de Judá e o rei de Edom; após sete dias de marcha, não havia água para o exército e para o gado que os seguiam. 10 Então, disse o rei de Israel: Ai! O Senhor chamou a estes três reis para os entregar nas mãos de Moabe. 11 Perguntou, porém, Josafá: Não há, aqui, algum profeta do Senhor, para que consultemos o Senhor por ele? Respondeu um dos servos do rei de Israel: Aqui está Eliseu, filho de Safate, que deitava água sobre as mãos de Elias. 12 Disse Josafá: Está com ele a palavra do Senhor. Então, o rei de Israel, Josafá 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 é quem chamou estes três reis para os entregar nas mãos de Moabe. 14 Disse Eliseu: Tão certo como vive o Senhor dos Exércitos, em cuja presença estou, se eu não respeitasse a presença de Josafá, rei de Judá, não te daria atenção, nem te contemplaria. 15 Ora, pois, trazei-me um tangedor. Quando o tangedor tocava, veio o poder de Deus sobre Eliseu. 16 Este disse: Assim diz o Senhor: Fazei, neste vale, covas e covas. 17 Porque assim diz o Senhor: Não sentireis vento, nem vereis chuva; todavia, este vale se encherá de tanta água, que bebereis vós, e o vosso gado, e os vossos animais. 18 Isto é ainda pouco aos olhos do Senhor; de maneira que também entregará Moabe nas vossas mãos. 19 Ferireis todas as cidades fortificadas e todas as cidades principais, e todas as boas árvores cortareis, e tapareis todas as fontes de água, e danificareis com pedras todos os bons campos. 20 Pela manhã, ao apresentar-se a oferta de manjares, 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 pelejar contra eles, todos os que cingiam cinto, desde o mais novo até ao mais velho, foram convocados e postos nas fronteiras. 22 Levantando-se de madrugada, em saindo o sol sobre as águas, viram os moabitas defronte deles as águas vermelhas como sangue. 23 E disseram: Isto é sangue; certamente, os reis se destruíram e se mataram um ao outro! Agora, pois, à presa, ó Moabe! 24 Porém, chegando eles ao arraial de Israel, os israelitas se levantaram e feriram aos moabitas, os quais fugiram diante deles; entraram os israelitas na terra e também aí feriram aos moabitas. 25 Arrasaram as cidades, e cada um lançou a sua pedra em todos os bons campos, e os entulharam, e taparam todas as fontes de águas, e cortaram todas as boas árvores, até que só Quir-Haresete ficou com seus muros; mas os que atiravam com fundas a cercaram e a feriram. 26 Vendo o rei de Moabe que a peleja prevalecia contra ele, tomou consigo setecentos homens que arrancavam 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 ira contra Israel; por isso, se retiraram dali e voltaram para a sua própria terra.
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.
2 And he worked 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.
3 Nevertheless he joined to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheep master, and rendered to the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.
7 And he 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? And he said, I will go up: I am as you are, my people as your people, and my horses as your horses.
8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
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.
10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD has called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
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' servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of 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 And Elisha 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. And the king of Israel said to him, No: for the LORD has called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
14 And Elisha said, As the LORD 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.
15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came on him.
16 And he said, Thus said the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.
17 For thus said the LORD, You shall not see wind, neither shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that you may drink, both you, and your cattle, and your beasts.
18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
19 And you 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.
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.
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 armor, and upward, and stood in the border.
22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
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.
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; however, the slingers went about it, and smote it.
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 to the king of Edom: but they could not.
27 Then he took his oldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.