1 Now Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted] the son of Ach’av [father’s brother] began to reign over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in Shomron [watch mountain] the eighteenth year of Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and reigned twelve years.

2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Ba’al [lord (a false god)] that his father had made.

3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect], which made Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to sin; he departed not from them.

4 And Mesha [deliverance] king of Mo’av [Seed of my Father] was a sheep-breeder, and rendered unto the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.

5 But it came to pass, when Ach’av [father’s brother] was dead, that the king of Mo’av [Seed of my Father] rebelled against the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

6 And king Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted] went out of Shomron [watch mountain] the same time, and numbered all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

7 And he went and sent to Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], saying, The king of Mo’av [Seed of my Father] has rebelled against me: will youi go with me against Mo’av [Seed of my Father] to battle? And he said, I will go up: I [am] as youi [are], my people as youri people, [and] my horses as youri horses.

8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom [Red].

9 So the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] went, and the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the king of Edom [Red]: and they went on a circular course (go around, encircle; encompass) of seven days’ journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.

10 And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said, Alas! that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Mo’av [Seed of my Father]!

11 But Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that we may enquire of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) by him? And one of the king of Yisra’el’s [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] servants answered and said, Here [is] Eli-sha [my God is salvation] the son of Shafat [He Has Judged], which poured water on the hands of Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah].

12 And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] said, The word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) is with him. So the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] and the king of Edom [Red] went down to him.

13 And Eli-sha [my God is salvation] said unto the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], What have I to do with youi? get youi to the prophets of youri father, and to the prophets of youri mother. And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said unto him, No: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Mo’av [Seed of my Father].

14 And Eli-sha [my God is salvation] said, [As] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], I would not look toward youi, nor see youi.

15 But now bring me a musician. And it came to pass, when the musician played, that the hand of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came upon him.

16 And he said, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Make this valley full of trenches.

17 For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), You2f shall not see wind, neither shall you2f see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that you2f may drink, both you2f, and your cattle, and your beasts.

18 And this is [but] a light thing in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): he will deliver the Mo’avi [of his father] also into your hand.

19 And you2f shall strike every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and ruin 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 [Red], and the country was filled with water.

21 And when all the Mo’avi [of his father] 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.

22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Mo’avi [of his father] 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, Mo’av [Seed of my Father], to the spoil (plunder; prey; booty).

24 And when they came to the camp of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], the Yisra’eli’s rose up and struck the Mo’avi [of his father], so that they fled before them: but they went forward attacking the Mo’avi [of his father], 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 Kir-Hareset [wall of potsherds] left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about [it], and struck it.

26 And when the king of Mo’av [Seed of my Father] saw that the battle was too much for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through [even] unto the king of Edom [Red]: but they could not.

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 Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: and they departed from him, and returned to [their own] land.