1And Joram the son of Achab, reigned over Israel, in Samaria, in the eighteenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda. And he 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 evil before the Lord, but not like his father and his mother: for he took away the statues of Baal, which 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 stuck to the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he depart from them.

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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 Mesa, king of Moab, nourished many sheep, and he paid to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with their fleeces.

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

5And when Achab was dead, he broke the league which he had made with 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 Joram went out that day from Samaria, 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 sent to Josaphat; king of Juda, saying: The king of Moab is revolted from me: come with me against him to battle. And he answered: I will come up: he that is mine, is thine: my people are thy people: and my horses, 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? But he answered: By the desert 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, and the king of Juda, and the king of Edom, went, and they fetched a compass of seven days journey, and there was no water for the army, and 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, alas, alas, the Lord hath gathered us three kings together, to deliver us into the hands of Moab.

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

11And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that we may beseech the Lord by him? And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered: Here is Eliseus, the son of Saphat, who poured water on the hands of Elias.

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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 Josaphat said: The word of the Lord is with him. And the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, 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 Eliseus said to the king of Israel: What have I to do with thee? go to the prophets of thy father, and thy mother. And the king of Israel said to him: Why hath the Lord gathered together these three kings, to deliver them into the hands 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 Eliseus said to him: As the Lord of hosts liveth, in whose sight I stand, if I did not reverence the face of Josaphat, king of Juda, I would not have hearkened to thee, nor looked on 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 hither a minstrel. And when the minstrel played, the hand of the Lord came upon him, and he said:

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

16Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of this torrent full of ditches.

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

17For thus saith the Lord: You shall not see wind, nor rain: and yet this channel shall be filled with waters, and you shall drink, you and your families, 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 a small thing in the sight of the Lord: moreover, he will deliver, also, Moab into your hands.

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

19And you shall destroy every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall cut down every fruitful tree, and shall stop up all the springs of waters, and every goodly field you shall cover 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, when the sacrifices used to be offered, that behold, water came 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

21And all the Moabites hearing that the kings were come up to fight against them, gathered together all that were girded with a belt upon them, and stood in the borders.

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

22And they rose early in the morning, and the sun being now up, and shining upon the waters, the Moabites saw the waters over against them red, like blood,

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23And they said: It is the blood of the sword: the kings have fought among themselves, and they have killed one another: go now, Moab, to the spoils.

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

24And they went into the camp of Israel: but Israel rising up, defeated Moab, who fled before them. And they being conquerors, went and smote Moab.

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

25And they destroyed the cities: And they filled every goodly field, every man casting his stone: and they stopt up all the springs of waters: and cut down all the trees that bore fruit, so that brick walls only remained: and the city was beset by the slingers, and a great part thereof destroyed.

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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 this, to wit, that the enemies had prevailed, he took with him seven hundred men that drew the sword, to break in upon 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 indignation in Israel, and presently they departed from him, and returned into their own country.

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