Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. 2Ki 1:171Ki 22:512Ki 8:16 He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, but not like his father and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made. 2Ki 10:181Ki 21:252Ki 10:26-28Exo 23:241Ki 16:191Ki 16:31-331Ki 21:201Ki 21:5-15 Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from them. 1Ki 14:161Ki 12:26-331Ki 13:331Ki 14:91Ki 15:261Ki 15:341Ki 16:312Ki 13:11
Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams. 2Sa 8:2Gen 26:13-141Ch 18:22Ch 26:10Gen 13:2Isa 16:1-2Job 1:3Job 42:12 But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. 2Ki 1:12Ch 21:8-102Ki 8:20 King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel. 1Ki 20:271Sa 11:81Sa 15:42Sa 24:1-25 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?” 1Ki 22:42Ch 18:32Ch 22:10-121Ki 22:32-332Ch 18:29-322Ch 19:22Ch 21:4-72Ch 22:3-4
He said, “I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.” Then he said, “Which way shall we go up?” Mal 1:2-3Num 21:4
Jehoram answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”
So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them. 1Ki 22:471Ki 22:27Exo 11:8Exo 15:22Exo 17:1Jdg 4:10Num 20:2Num 20:4 The king of Israel said, “Alas! For the LORD has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.” 2Ki 6:33Gen 4:13Isa 51:20Isa 8:21Pro 19:3Psa 78:34-36
But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there a prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of the LORD by him?” 1Ki 22:71Ki 19:212Ki 3:31Ch 14:101Ch 14:141Ch 15:132Ki 2:25Amo 3:7
One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah, is here.”
Jehoshaphat said, “The LORD’s word is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him. 1Sa 3:19-212Ki 2:14-152Ki 2:212Ki 2:24-252Ki 5:152Ki 5:8-9Isa 49:23Isa 60:14
Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.” 1Ki 18:191Ki 22:61Ki 22:10-111Ki 22:22-252Ki 3:10Deu 32:37-392Co 5:162Co 6:15
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.”
Elisha said, “As the LORD of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you. 2Ki 5:161Ki 17:11Ki 14:5-181Ki 18:151Ki 21:201Sa 15:26-312Ch 17:3-92Ch 19:3-4 But now bring me a musician.” When the musician played, the LORD’s hand came on him. 1Sa 16:23Eph 5:18-191Sa 10:5Ezk 1:31Ki 18:46Ezk 8:11Ch 25:1-31Sa 18:10 He said, “The LORD says, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’ 2Ki 4:3Num 2:16-18 For the LORD says, ‘You will not see wind, neither will you see rain, yet that valley will be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your other animals. Psa 107:35Isa 41:17-18Isa 43:19-20Isa 48:21Psa 84:6Exo 17:6Num 20:8-111Ki 18:36-39 This is an easy thing in the LORD’s sight. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand. Jer 32:27Luk 1:37Jer 32:172Ki 20:10Eph 3:20Isa 49:6Mrk 10:27Ezk 8:17 You shall strike every fortified city and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’” 1Sa 15:31Sa 23:22Ki 13:172Ki 3:25Deu 20:19-20Jdg 6:16Num 24:17
In the morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water. Exo 29:39-401Ki 18:36Dan 9:21Isa 35:6-7Psa 78:15-16Psa 78:20
Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, young and old, and stood on the border. 1Ki 20:11Eph 6:14 They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood. They said, “This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the plunder!” 2Ch 20:252Ki 6:18-202Ki 7:6Exo 15:9Isa 10:14Jdg 5:30
When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land attacking the Moabites. 1Th 5:3-4Jdg 20:40-46Jos 8:20-22 They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the springs of water and cut down all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones; however the men armed with slings went around it and attacked it. 2Ki 3:19Isa 16:7Jer 48:31Jer 48:36Isa 16:112Ch 32:42Sa 8:2Deu 2:9 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not. 2Ki 3:9Amo 2:1 Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land. Mic 6:7Deu 12:31Jdg 11:31Amo 2:1Ezk 16:20Psa 106:37-381Sa 14:36-46Gen 22:13