1In the eighteenth year of King Jehoshaphat of Judah, Jehoram son of Ahab became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned for twelve years.
2He did what was wrong in the eyes of the LORD, though not as his father and his mother had done; he did remove the sacred pillar of the Baal which his father had made.
3Yet he persisted in the sins into which Jeroboam son of Nebat had led Israel, and did not give them up.
4KING Mesha of Moab was a sheep-breeder, and he had to supply the king of Israel regularly with the wool of a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand rams.
5When Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel,
6and King Jehoram marched out from Samaria and mustered all Israel.
7He also sent this message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you join me in a campaign against Moab?” “I will join you,” he replied; “what is mine is yours: myself, my people, and my horses.”
8“From which direction shall we attack?” he asked. “Through the wilderness of Edom,” replied the other.
9The king of Israel set out with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and when they had been seven days on the indirect route they were following, they had no water left for the army or their pack-animals.
10The king of Israel cried, “Alas, the LORD has brought together three kings, only to put us at the mercy of the Moabites.”
11Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not a prophet of the LORD here through whom we may seek the LORD's guidance?” One of the officers of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shaphat is here, the man who poured water on Elijah's hands.”
12“The word of the LORD is with him,” said Jehoshaphat. When the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to Elisha,
13he said to the king of Israel, “Why do you come to me? Go to your father's prophets or your mother's.” “No,” answered the king of Israel; “it is the LORD who has called us three kings out to put us at the mercy of the Moabites.”
14“As the LORD of Hosts lives, whom I serve,” said Elisha, “I would not spare a look or a glance for you, if it were not for my regard for King Jehoshaphat of Judah.
15But now fetch me a minstrel”; and while the minstrel played, the power of the LORD came on Elisha,
16and he said, “This is the word of the LORD: Pools will form all over this wadi.
17The LORD has decreed that you will see neither wind nor rain, yet this wadi will be filled with water for you and your army and your pack-animals to drink.
18That is a mere trifle in the sight of the LORD; what he will also do is to put Moab at your mercy.
19You will raze to the ground every fortified town and every noble city; you will cut down all their fine trees; you will stop up all the springs of water; and you will spoil every good piece of land by littering it with stones.”
20In the morning at the hour of the regular offering they saw water flowing in from the direction of Edom, and the land was flooded.
21Meanwhile all Moab had heard that the kings had come up to wage war against them, and every man, young and old, who could bear arms was called out and stationed on the frontier.
22When they got up next morning and the sun was shining over the water, the Moabites saw the water in front of them red like blood
23and cried out, “It is blood! The kings must have quarrelled and attacked one another. Now to the plunder, Moab!”
24But when they came to the Israelite camp, the Israelites sallied out and attacked them, driving the Moabites in headlong flight. The Israelites pushed forward into Moab, destroying as they went.
25They razed the towns to the ground; they littered every good piece of land with stones, each man casting a stone on it; they stopped up every spring of water; they cut down all the fine trees; and they harried Moab until only in Kir-hareseth were any buildings left standing, and even this city the slingers surrounded and attacked.
26When the Moabite king saw that the war had gone against him, he took with him seven hundred men armed with swords to cut a way through to the king of Aram, but the attempt failed.
27Then he took his eldest son, who would have succeeded him, and offered him as a whole-offering on the city wall. There was such great consternation among the Israelites that they struck camp and returned to their own land.
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