Bible Cross References
Moabites
Numbers 21:29
How terrible for you, people of Moab! You worshipers of Chemosh are brought to ruin! Your god let the men become refugees, And the women became captives of the Amorite king.
Numbers 22:1-41
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The Israelites moved on and set up camp in the plains of Moab east of the Jordan and opposite Jericho.
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When the king of Moab, Balak son of Zippor, heard what the Israelites had done to the Amorites and how many Israelites there were,
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he and all his people became terrified.
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The Moabites said to the leaders of the Midianites, "This horde will soon destroy everything around us, like a bull eating the grass in a pasture." So King Balak
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sent messengers to summon Balaam son of Beor, who was at Pethor near the Euphrates River in the land of Amaw. They brought him this message from Balak: "I want you to know that a whole nation has come from Egypt; its people are spreading out everywhere and threatening to take over our land.
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They outnumber us, so please come and put a curse on them for me. Then perhaps we will be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. I know that when you pronounce a blessing, people are blessed, and when you pronounce a curse, they are placed under a curse."
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So the Moabite and Midianite leaders took with them the payment for the curse, went to Balaam, and gave him Balak's message.
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Balaam said to them, "Spend the night here, and tomorrow I will report to you whatever the LORD tells me." So the Moabite leaders stayed with Balaam.
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God came to Balaam and asked, "Who are these people that are staying with you?"
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He answered, "King Balak of Moab has sent them to tell me
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that a people who came from Egypt has spread out over the whole land. He wants me to curse them for him, so that he can fight them and drive them out."
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God said to Balaam, "Do not go with them, and do not put a curse on the people of Israel, because they have my blessing."
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The next morning Balaam went to Balak's messengers and said, "Go back home; the LORD has refused to let me go with you."
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So they returned to Balak and told him that Balaam had refused to come with them.
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Then Balak sent a larger number of leaders, who were more important than the first.
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They went to Balaam and gave him this message from Balak: "Please don't let anything prevent you from coming to me!
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I will reward you richly and do anything you say. Please come and curse these people for me."
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But Balaam answered, "Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not disobey the command of the LORD my God in even the smallest matter.
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But please spend the night, as the others did, so that I may learn whether or not the LORD has something else to tell me."
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That night God came to Balaam and said, "If these men have come to ask you to go with them, get ready and go, but do only what I tell you."
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So the next morning Balaam saddled his donkey and went with the Moabite leaders.
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God was angry that Balaam was going, and as Balaam was riding along on his donkey, accompanied by his two servants, the angel of the LORD stood in the road to bar his way.
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When the donkey saw the angel standing there holding a sword, it left the road and turned into the fields. Balaam beat the donkey and brought it back onto the road.
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Then the angel stood where the road narrowed between two vineyards and had a stone wall on each side.
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When the donkey saw the angel, it moved over against the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against it. Again Balaam beat the donkey.
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Once more the angel moved ahead; he stood in a narrow place where there was no room at all to pass on either side.
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This time, when the donkey saw the angel, it lay down. Balaam lost his temper and began to beat the donkey with his stick.
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Then the LORD gave the donkey the power of speech, and it said to Balaam, "What have I done to you? Why have you beaten me these three times?"
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Balaam answered, "Because you have made a fool of me! If I had a sword, I would kill you."
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The donkey replied, "Am I not the same donkey on which you have ridden all your life? Have I ever treated you like this before?" "No," he answered.
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Then the LORD let Balaam see the angel standing there with his sword; and Balaam threw himself face downward on the ground.
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The angel demanded, "Why have you beaten your donkey three times like this? I have come to bar your way, because you should not be making this journey.
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But your donkey saw me and turned aside three times. If it hadn't, I would have killed you and spared the donkey."
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Balaam replied, "I have sinned. I did not know that you were standing in the road to oppose me; but now if you think it is wrong for me to go on, I will return home."
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But the angel said, "Go on with these men, but say only what I tell you to say." So Balaam went on with them.
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When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went to meet him at Ar, a city on the Arnon River at the border of Moab.
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Balak said to him, "Why didn't you come when I sent for you the first time? Did you think I wasn't able to reward you enough?"
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Balaam answered, "I came, didn't I? But now, what power do I have? I can say only what God tells me to say."
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So Balaam went with Balak to the town of Huzoth,
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where Balak slaughtered cattle and sheep and gave some of the meat to Balaam and the leaders who were with him.
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The next morning Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth Baal, from where Balaam could see a part of the people of Israel.
Numbers 24:1-25
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By now Balaam knew that the LORD wanted him to bless the people of Israel, so he did not go to look for omens, as he had done before. He turned toward the desert
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and saw the people of Israel camped tribe by tribe. The spirit of God took control of him,
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and he uttered this prophecy: "The message of Balaam son of Beor, The words of the man who can see clearly,
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Who can hear what God is saying. With staring eyes I see in a trance A vision from Almighty God.
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The tents of Israel are beautiful,
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Like long rows of palms Or gardens beside a river, Like aloes planted by the LORD Or cedars beside the water.
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They will have abundant rainfall And plant their seed in well-watered fields. Their king shall be greater than Agag, And his rule shall be extended far and wide.
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God brought them out of Egypt; He fights for them like a wild ox. They devour their enemies, Crush their bones, smash their arrows.
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The nation is like a mighty lion; When it is sleeping, no one dares wake it. Whoever blesses Israel will be blessed, And whoever curses Israel will be cursed."
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Balak clenched his fists in anger and said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, but three times now you have blessed them instead.
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Now get on home! I promised to reward you, but the LORD has kept you from getting the reward."
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Balaam answered, "I told the messengers you sent to me that
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even if you gave me all the silver and gold in your palace, I could not disobey the command of the LORD by doing anything of myself. I will say only what the LORD tells me to say."
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Balaam said to Balak, "Now I am going back to my own people, but before I go, I am warning you what the people of Israel will do to your people in the future."
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Then he uttered this prophecy: "The message of Balaam son of Beor, The words of the man who can see clearly,
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Who can hear what God is saying And receive the knowledge that comes from the Most High. With staring eyes I see in a trance A vision from Almighty God.
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I look into the future, And I see the nation of Israel. A king, like a bright star, will arise in that nation. Like a comet he will come from Israel. He will strike the leaders of Moab And beat down all the people of Seth.
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He will conquer his enemies in Edom And make their land his property, While Israel continues victorious.
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The nation of Israel will trample them down And wipe out the last survivors."
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Then in his vision Balaam saw the Amalekites and uttered this prophecy: "Amalek was the most powerful nation of all, But at the end it will perish forever."
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In his vision he saw the Kenites, and uttered this prophecy: "The place where you live is secure, Safe as a nest set high on a cliff,
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But you Kenites will be destroyed When Assyria takes you captive."
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Balaam uttered this prophecy: "Who are these people gathering in the north?
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Invaders will sail from Cyprus; They will conquer Assyria and Eber, But they, in turn, will perish forever."
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Then Balaam got ready and went back home, and Balak went on his way.
Deuteronomy 2:9
The LORD said to me, 'Don't trouble the people of Moab, the descendants of Lot, or start a war against them. I have given them the city of Ar, and I am not going to give you any of their land.' "
Deuteronomy 2:19
You will then be near the land of the Ammonites, the descendants of Lot. Don't trouble them or start a war against them, because I am not going to give you any of the land that I have given them.' "
Deuteronomy 23:3
"No Ammonite or Moabite---or any of their descendants, even in the tenth generation---may be included among the LORD's people.
Judges 3:1-31
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So then, the LORD left some nations in the land to test the Israelites who had not been through the wars in Canaan.
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He did this only in order to teach each generation of Israelites about war, especially those who had never been in battle before.
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Those left in the land were the five Philistine cities, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the Lebanon Mountains from Mount Baal Hermon as far as Hamath Pass.
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They were to be a test for Israel, to find out whether or not the Israelites would obey the commands that the LORD had given their ancestors through Moses.
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And so the people of Israel settled down among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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They intermarried with them and worshiped their gods.
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The people of Israel forgot the LORD their God; they sinned against him and worshiped the idols of Baal and Asherah.
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So the LORD became angry with Israel and let King Cushan Rishathaim of Mesopotamia conquer them. They were subject to him for eight years.
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Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he sent someone to free them. This was Othniel, the son of Caleb's younger brother Kenaz.
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The spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel's leader. Othniel went to war, and the LORD gave him the victory over the king of Mesopotamia.
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There was peace in the land for forty years, and then Othniel died.
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The people of Israel sinned against the LORD again. Because of this the LORD made King Eglon of Moab stronger than Israel.
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Eglon joined the Ammonites and the Amalekites; they defeated Israel and captured Jericho, the city of palm trees.
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The Israelites were subject to Eglon for eighteen years.
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Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he sent someone to free them. This was Ehud, a left-handed man, who was the son of Gera, from the tribe of Benjamin. The people of Israel sent Ehud to King Eglon of Moab with gifts for him.
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Ehud had made himself a double-edged sword about a foot and a half long. He had it fastened on his right side under his clothes.
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Then he took the gifts to Eglon, who was a very fat man.
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When Ehud had given him the gifts, he told the men who had carried them to go back home.
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But Ehud himself turned back at the carved stones near Gilgal, went back to Eglon, and said, "Your Majesty, I have a secret message for you." So the king ordered his servants, "Leave us alone!" And they all went out.
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Then, as the king was sitting there alone in his cool room on the roof, Ehud went over to him and said, "I have a message from God for you." The king stood up.
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With his left hand Ehud took the sword from his right side and plunged it into the king's belly.
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The whole sword went in, handle and all, and the fat covered it up. Ehud did not pull it out of the king's belly, and it stuck out behind, between his legs.
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Then Ehud went outside, closed the doors behind him, locked them,
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and left. The servants came and saw that the doors were locked, but they only thought that the king was inside, relieving himself.
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They waited as long as they thought they should, but when he still did not open the door, they took the key and opened it. And there was their master, lying dead on the floor.
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Ehud got away while they were waiting. He went past the carved stones and escaped to Seirah.
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When he arrived there in the hill country of Ephraim, he blew a trumpet to call the people of Israel to battle; then he led them down from the hills.
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He told them, "Follow me! The LORD has given you victory over your enemies, the Moabites." So they followed Ehud down and captured the place where the Moabites were to cross the Jordan; they did not allow anyone to cross.
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That day they killed about ten thousand of the best Moabite soldiers; none of them escaped.
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That day the Israelites defeated Moab, and there was peace in the land for eighty years.
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The next leader was Shamgar son of Anath. He too rescued Israel, and did so by killing six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.
Ruth 4:10
In addition, Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon's widow, becomes my wife. This will keep the property in the dead man's family, and his family line will continue among his people and in his hometown. You are witnesses to this today."
2 Samuel 8:1-18
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Some time later King David attacked the Philistines again, defeated them, and ended their control over the land.
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Then he defeated the Moabites. He made the prisoners lie down on the ground and put two out of every three of them to death. So the Moabites became his subjects and paid taxes to him.
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Then he defeated the king of the Syrian state of Zobah, Hadadezer son of Rehob, as Hadadezer was on his way to restore his control over the territory by the upper Euphrates River.
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David captured seventeen hundred of his cavalry and twenty thousand of his foot soldiers. He kept enough horses for a hundred chariots and crippled all the rest.
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When the Syrians of Damascus sent an army to help King Hadadezer, David attacked it and killed twenty-two thousand men.
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Then he set up military camps in their territory, and they became his subjects and paid taxes to him. The LORD made David victorious everywhere.
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David captured the gold shields carried by Hadadezer's officials and took them to Jerusalem.
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He also took a great quantity of bronze from Betah and Berothai, cities ruled by Hadadezer.
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King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated all of Hadadezer's army.
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So he sent his son Joram to greet King David and congratulate him for his victory over Hadadezer, against whom Toi had fought many times. Joram took David presents made of gold, silver, and bronze.
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King David dedicated them for use in worship, along with the silver and gold he took from the nations he had conquered---
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Edom, Moab, Ammon, Philistia, and Amalek---as well as part of the loot he had taken from Hadadezer.
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David became even more famous when he returned from killing eighteen thousand Edomites in Salt Valley.
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He set up military camps throughout Edom, and the people there became his subjects. The LORD made David victorious everywhere.
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David ruled over all of Israel and made sure that his people were always treated fairly and justly.
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Joab, whose mother was Zeruiah, was the commander of the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was in charge of the records;
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Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the court secretary;
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Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in charge of David's bodyguards; and David's sons were priests.
2 Kings 3:1-27
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In the eighteenth year of the reign of King Jehoshaphat of Judah, Joram son of Ahab became king of Israel, and he ruled in Samaria for twelve years.
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He sinned against the LORD, but he was not as bad as his father or his mother Jezebel; he pulled down the image his father had made for the worship of Baal.
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Yet, like King Jeroboam son of Nebat before him, he led Israel into sin and would not stop.
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King Mesha of Moab raised sheep, and every year he gave as tribute to the king of Israel 100,000 lambs and the wool from 100,000 sheep.
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But when King Ahab of Israel died, Mesha rebelled against Israel.
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At once King Joram left Samaria and gathered all his troops.
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He sent word to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: "The king of Moab has rebelled against me; will you join me in war against him?" "I will," King Jehoshaphat replied. "I am at your disposal, and so are my men and my horses.
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What route shall we take for the attack?" "We will go the long way through the wilderness of Edom," Joram answered.
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So King Joram and the kings of Judah and Edom set out. After marching seven days, they ran out of water, and there was none left for the men or the pack animals.
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"We're done for!" King Joram exclaimed. "The LORD has put the three of us at the mercy of the king of Moab!"
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King Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there a prophet here through whom we can consult the LORD?" An officer of King Joram's forces answered, "Elisha son of Shaphat is here. He was Elijah's assistant."
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"He is a true prophet," King Jehoshaphat said. So the three kings went to Elisha.
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"Why should I help you?" Elisha said to the king of Israel. "Go and consult those prophets that your father and mother consulted." "No!" Joram replied. "It is the LORD who has put us three kings at the mercy of the king of Moab."
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Elisha answered, "By the living LORD, whom I serve, I swear that I would have nothing to do with you if I didn't respect your ally, King Jehoshaphat of Judah.
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Now get me a musician." As the musician played his harp, the power of the LORD came on Elisha,
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and he said, "This is what the LORD says: 'Dig ditches all over this dry stream bed.
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Even though you will not see any rain or wind, this stream bed will be filled with water, and you, your livestock, and your pack animals will have plenty to drink.' "
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And Elisha continued, "But this is an easy thing for the LORD to do; he will also give you victory over the Moabites.
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You will conquer all their beautiful fortified cities; you will cut down all their fruit trees, stop all their springs, and ruin all their fertile fields by covering them with stones."
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The next morning, at the time of the regular morning sacrifice, water came flowing from the direction of Edom and covered the ground.
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When the Moabites heard that the three kings had come to attack them, all the men who could bear arms, from the oldest to the youngest, were called out and stationed at the border.
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When they got up the following morning, the sun was shining on the water, making it look as red as blood.
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"It's blood!" they exclaimed. "The three enemy armies must have fought and killed each other! Let's go and loot their camp!"
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But when they reached the camp, the Israelites attacked them and drove them back. The Israelites kept up the pursuit, slaughtering the Moabites
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and destroying their cities. As they passed by a fertile field, every Israelite would throw a stone on it until finally all the fields were covered; they also stopped up the springs and cut down the fruit trees. At last only the capital city of Kir Heres was left, and the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.
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When the king of Moab realized that he was losing the battle, he took seven hundred swordsmen with him and tried to force his way through the enemy lines and escape to the king of Syria, but he failed.
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So he took his oldest son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him on the city wall as a sacrifice to the god of Moab. The Israelites were terrified and so they drew back from the city and returned to their own country.