12:003:015 But now bring me a minstrel. And it
came to pass, when the
minstrel
played, that the hand of the lord came upon him.
12:003:016 And he said, Thus saith the lord,
Make this valley full of
ditches.
12:003:017 For thus saith the lord, Ye shall
not see wind, neither shall
ye
see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water,
that
ye
may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
12:003:018 And this is but a light thing in the sight
of the lord: he
will
deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
12:003:019 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and
every choice city,
and
shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water,
and
mar every good piece of land with stones.
12:003:020 And it came to pass in the morning, when
the meat offering was
offered,
that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom,
and
the country was filled with water.
12:003:021 And when all the Moabites heard that the
kings were come up to
fight
against them, they gathered all that were able to put
on
armour,
and upward, and stood in the border.
12:003:022 And they rose up early in the morning,
and the sun shone upon
the
water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other
side as
red
as blood:
12:003:023 And they said, This is blood: the
kings are surely slain, and
they
have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab,
to the
spoil.
12:003:024 And when they came to the camp of Israel,
the Israelites rose
up
and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them:
but
they
went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country.
12:003:025 And they beat down the cities, and on every
good piece of land
cast
every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped
all
the
wells of water, and felled all the good trees:
only in
Kirharaseth
left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers
went
about it, and smote it.
12:003:026 And when the king of Moab saw that the
battle was too sore for
him,
he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords,
to
break
through even unto the king of Edom: but they could
not.
12:003:027 Then 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 against Israel: and they
departed
from
him, and returned to their own land.
12:004:001 Now there cried a certain woman of the
wives of the sons of
the
prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband
is
dead;
and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the lord:
and
the
creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be
bondmen.


