1Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned twelve years.2He did what was bad in the eyes of the LORD, except that he did not do as his father or as his mother, and he removed the pillar of Baal that his father had made.3Nevertheless he clung to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, by which he had caused Israel to sin; he did not turn aside from them.4Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he used to deliver to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand rams with wool.5And it happened, after the death of Ahab, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.6So King Jehoram went out from Samaria at that time and mustered all Israel.7He went and sent to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying, 'The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to Moab to battle?' He said, 'I will go up; I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.'8He said, 'Which way shall we go up?' He said, 'The way of the wilderness of Edom.'9So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they went around a seven-day journey, and there was no water for the camp or for the animals that followed them.10Then the king of Israel said, 'Alas! For the LORD has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.'11Jehoshaphat said, 'Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD from him?' One of the servants of the king of Israel answered and said, 'Elisha son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.'12Jehoshaphat 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.13Elisha 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.' But the king of Israel said to him, 'No; for the LORD has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.'14Elisha said, 'As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not look toward you or see you.'15But now bring me a musician. And it happened, when the musician played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.16He said, 'Thus says the LORD: Make this wadi full of cisterns.'17For thus says the LORD: You shall not see wind or rain, yet this wadi shall be filled with water, so that you and your livestock and your animals may drink.18This is a light thing in the eyes of the LORD; he will also give Moab into your hand.19You shall strike every fortified city and every choice city; you shall fell every good tree, stop up every spring of water, and ruin every good piece of land with stones.20It happened in the morning, when the offering went up, that water came from the direction of Edom, and the land was filled with the water.21When all Moab heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they were called together, from everyone who could gird on a belt and upward, and they stood at the border.22They rose early in the morning, and when the sun shone on the water the Moabites saw the water opposite them red as blood.23They said, 'This is blood; the kings have surely slain one another, and now, Moab, to the spoil!'24When they came to the camp of Israel, Israel arose and struck Moab, and they fled from before them; and they went into it and struck Moab.25They overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone and filled it, and they stopped up every spring of water and felled every good tree, until only its stones in the wall of Kir-hareseth remained; then the slingers surrounded it and struck it.26When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew the sword to break through to the king of Edom, but they were not able.27He took his firstborn son, who was to reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. And great wrath came upon Israel, so they set out from him and returned to the land.