1Nowe Iehoram the sonne of Ahab beganne to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria, the eighteenth yeere of Iehoshaphat King of Iudah, and reigned twelue yeeres.

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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 wrought euill in the sight of the Lord, but not like his father nor like his mother: for he tooke away the image 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

3Neuerthelesse, he cleaued vnto the sinnes of Ieroboam, the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to sinne, and 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

4Then Mesha King of Moab had store of sheepe, and rendred vnto the King of Israel an hundreth thousande lambes, and an hundreth thousande rammes with the wooll.

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

5But when Ahab was dead, 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

6Therefore King Iehoram went out of Samaria the same season, and nombred 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 went, and sent to Iehoshaphat King of Iudah, saying, The King of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou goe with me to battell against Moab? And he answered, I will goe vp: for I am, as thou art, my people, as thy people, and mine horses as thine 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

8Then said he, What way shall we goe vp? And he answered, The way of the wildernesse of Edom.

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

9So went the King of Israel and the king of Iudah, and the King of Edom, and when they had compassed the way seuen dayes, they had no water for the hoste, nor for the cattell that followed them.

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

10Therefore the King of Israel sayde, Alas, that the Lord hath called these three Kings, to giue 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 Iehoshaphat saide, Is there not here a Prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire of the Lord by him? And one of the King of Israels seruants answered, and said, Here is Elisha the sonne of Shaphat, which powred water on the handes of Eliiah.

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

12Then Iehoshaphat saide, The worde of the Lord is with him. Therefore the King of Israel, and Iehoshaphat, and the King of Edom went downe 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 sayde vnto the King of Israel, What haue I to doe with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father and to the prophets of thy mother. And the King of Israel saide vnto him, Nay: for the Lord hath called these three Kings, to giue them into the hande 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

14Then Elisha said, As the Lord of hostes liueth, in whose sight I stande, if it were not, that I regarde the presence of Iehoshaphat the King of Iudah, I woulde not haue looked towarde thee, nor seene 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 nowe bring me a minstrel. And when the minstrel played, the hand of the Lord came vpon 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 saide, Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley 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, Ye shall neither see winde nor see raine, yet the valley shalbe filled with water, that ye may drinke, both ye and your cattel, and your beastes.

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

18But this is a small thing in the sight of the Lord: for he will giue Moab into your hande.

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

19And ye shall smite euery strong towne and euery chiefe citie, and shall fell euery faire tree, and shall stoppe all the fountaines of water, and marre euery good fielde with stones.

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

20And in the morning whe the meat offring was offred, beholde, there came water by the way of Edom: and the countrey 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 when al the Moabites heard that the Kings were come vp to fight against them, they gathered all that was able to put on harnesse, and vpwarde, and stood in their border.

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

22And they rose earely in the morning, when the sunne arose vpon the water, and the Moabites saw the water ouer against them, as red as blood.

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23And they saide, This is blood the Kings are surely slaine, and one hath smitten another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoyle.

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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 host of Israel, the Israelites arose vp, and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them, but they inuaded them, 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 on all the good field euery man cast his stone, and filled them and they stopt all the fountaines of water, and felled all the good trees: onely in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof: howebeit they went about it with slings, 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 battel was too sore for him, he tooke with him seuen hudreth men that drew the sword, to break through vnto 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 tooke his eldest sonne, that should haue reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offring vpon the wall: so that Israel was sore grieued, and they departed from him, and returned to their countrey.

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