2 Kings 3

¹And 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.

²He 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.

³But still he did the same sins which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do; he went on in them.

⁴Now 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.

⁵But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel.

⁶At that time, King Jehoram went out from Samaria and got all Israel together in fighting order.

⁷And 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.

⁸And he said, Which way are we to go? And he said in answer, By the waste land of Edom.

⁹So 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.

¹⁰And 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.

¹¹But 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.