1Now 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.

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2 Kings 1:17, 2 Kings 1:17, 2 Kings 8:16, 1 Kings 22:51, 2 Kings 8:16

2And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

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2 Kings 10:18, 2 Kings 10:18, 2 Kings 10:26, 2 Kings 10:28, 1 Kings 21:25

3Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.

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1 Kings 14:16, 1 Kings 14:16, 2 Kings 15:18, 1 Kings 13:33, 1 Kings 15:34

4Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master; and he rendered unto the king of Israel the wool of a hundred thousand lambs, and of a hundred thousand rams.

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2 Samuel 8:2, 2 Samuel 8:2, Job 42:12, Genesis 13:2, Psalms 108:9

5But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

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2 Kings 1:1, 2 Kings 1:1, 2 Chronicles 21:8, 2 Chronicles 21:10, 2 Kings 8:20

6And king Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.

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2 Samuel 24:1, 2 Samuel 24:25, 1 Kings 20:27, 1 Samuel 11:8, 1 Samuel 15:4

7And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.

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1 Kings 22:4, 1 Kings 22:4, 2 Chronicles 18:3, 2 Chronicles 22:10, 2 Chronicles 22:12

8And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way of the wilderness of Edom.

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Malachi 1:2, Malachi 1:3, Numbers 21:4, Malachi 1:2, Malachi 1:3

9So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days’ journey: and there was no water for the host, nor for the beasts that followed them.

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1 Kings 22:47, 1 Kings 22:47, Numbers 20:4, Exodus 17:1, Judges 4:10

10And the king of Israel said, Alas! for Jehovah hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

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Proverbs 19:3, 2 Kings 6:33, Genesis 4:13, Isaiah 8:21, Isaiah 51:20

11But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Jehovah, that we may inquire of Jehovah by him? And one of the king of Israel’s servants answered and said, Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.

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1 Kings 22:7, 1 Kings 22:7, 1 Kings 19:21, 1 Kings 19:21, 2 Kings 3:3

12And Jehoshaphat said, The word of Jehovah is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

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2 Kings 2:14, 2 Kings 2:15, Revelation 3:9, 2 Kings 5:15, Isaiah 49:23

13And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay; for Jehovah hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

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1 Kings 18:19, 1 Kings 22:6, 1 Kings 18:19, 1 Kings 22:6, Deuteronomy 32:37

14And Elisha said, As Jehovah of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.

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2 Kings 5:16, 2 Kings 5:16, 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 17:1, Jeremiah 1:18

15But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Jehovah came upon him.

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1 Samuel 16:23, 1 Samuel 16:23, Ezekiel 1:3, Ezekiel 1:3, 1 Samuel 10:5

16And he said, Thus saith Jehovah, Make this valley full of trenches.

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2 Kings 4:3, 2 Kings 4:3, Numbers 2:16, Numbers 2:18, Numbers 2:16

17For thus saith Jehovah, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, and ye shall drink, both ye and your cattle and your beasts.

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Psalms 107:35, Psalms 107:35, Isaiah 41:17, Isaiah 41:18, Isaiah 48:21

18And this is but a light thing in the sight of Jehovah: he will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.

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Luke 1:37, Jeremiah 32:27, Luke 1:37, Jeremiah 32:27, Jeremiah 32:17

19And ye shall smite every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all fountains of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

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2 Kings 3:25, Deuteronomy 20:19, Deuteronomy 20:20, Numbers 24:17, 1 Samuel 15:3

20And it came to pass in the morning, about the time of offering the oblation, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

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Exodus 29:39, Exodus 29:40, Exodus 29:39, Exodus 29:40, 1 Kings 18:36

21Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all that were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood on the border.

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1 Kings 20:11, Ephesians 6:14, 1 Kings 20:11, Ephesians 6:14

22And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood:

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23and they said, This is blood; the kings are surely destroyed, and they have smitten each man his fellow: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.

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2 Kings 7:6, Exodus 15:9, 2 Chronicles 20:25, 2 Kings 6:18, 2 Kings 6:20

24And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites.

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1 Thessalonians 5:3, 1 Thessalonians 5:4, Joshua 8:20, Joshua 8:22, Judges 20:40

25And they beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the fountains of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir-hareseth only they left the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

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Jeremiah 48:36, Isaiah 16:7, Jeremiah 48:31, 2 Kings 3:19, Jeremiah 48:36

26And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew sword, to break through unto the king of Edom; but they could not.

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2 Kings 3:9, Amos 2:1, 2 Kings 3:9, Amos 2:1

27Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall. And there was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

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Micah 6:7, Micah 6:7, Deuteronomy 12:31, Deuteronomy 12:31, Judges 11:31