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1Or Jehoram, figliuolo di Achab, cominciò a regnare sopra Israele a Samaria l’anno decimottavo di Giosafat, re di Giuda, e regnò dodici anni. 2Egli fece ciò ch’è male agli occhi dell’Eterno; ma non quanto suo padre e sua madre, perché tolse via la statua di Baal, che suo padre avea fatta. 3Nondimeno egli rimase attaccato ai peccati coi quali Geroboamo figliuolo di Nebat, aveva fatto peccare Israele; e non se ne distolse. 4Or Mesha, re di Moab, allevava molto bestiame e pagava al re d’Israele un tributo di centomila agnelli e centomila montoni con le loro lane. 5Ma, morto che fu Achab, il re di Moab si ribellò al re d’Israele. 6Allora il re Jehoram uscì di Samaria e passò in rassegna tutto Israele; 7poi si mise in via, e mandò a dire a Giosafat, re di Giuda: "Il re di Moab mi si è ribellato; vuoi tu venire con me alla guerra contro Moab?" Quegli rispose: "Verrò; fa’ conto di me come di te stesso, del mio popolo come del tuo, de’ miei cavalli come dei tuoi. 8E soggiunse: "Per che via saliremo?" Jehoram rispose: "Per la via del deserto di Edom". 9Così il re d’Israele, il re di Giuda e il re di Edom si mossero; e dopo aver girato a mezzodì con una marcia di sette giorni, mancò l’acqua all’esercito e alle bestie che gli andavan dietro. 10Allora il re d’Israele disse: "Ahimè, l’Eterno ha chiamati assieme questi tre re, per darli nelle mani di Moab!" 11Ma Giosafat chiese: "Non v’ha egli qui alcun profeta dell’Eterno mediante il quale possiam consultare l’Eterno?" Uno dei servi del re d’Israele rispose: "V’è qui Eliseo, figliuolo di Shafat, il quale versava l’acqua sulle mani d’Elia". E Giosafat disse: 12"La parola dell’Eterno è con lui". Così il re d’Israele, Giosafat e il re di Edom andarono a trovarlo. 13Eliseo disse al re d’Israele: "Che ho io da far con te? Vattene ai profeti di tuo padre ed ai profeti di tua madre!" Il re d’Israele gli rispose: "No, perché l’Eterno ha chiamati insieme questi tre re per darli nelle mani di Moab". 14Allora Eliseo disse: "Com’è vero che vive l’Eterno degli eserciti al quale io servo, se non avessi rispetto a Giosafat, re di Giuda, io non avrei badato a te né t’avrei degnato d’uno sguardo. 15Ma ora conducetemi qua un sonatore d’arpa". E, mentre il sonatore arpeggiava, la mano dell’Eterno fu sopra Eliseo, 16che disse: "Così parla l’Eterno: Fate in questa valle delle fosse, delle fosse. 17Poiché così dice l’Eterno: Voi non vedrete vento, non vedrete pioggia, e nondimeno questa valle si riempirà d’acqua; e berrete voi, il vostro bestiame e le vostre bestie da tiro. 18E questo è ancora poca cosa agli occhi dell’Eterno; perché egli darà anche Moab nelle vostre mani. 19E voi distruggerete tutte le città fortificate e tutte le città ragguardevoli, abbatterete tutti i buoni alberi, turerete tutte le sorgenti d’acqua, e guasterete con delle pietre ogni buon pezzo di terra". 20La mattina dopo, nell’ora in cui s’offre l’oblazione, ecco che l’acqua arrivò dal lato di Edom e il paese ne fu ripieno. 21Ora tutti i Moabiti, avendo udito che quei re eran saliti per muover loro guerra, avevan radunato tutti quelli ch’erano in età di portare le armi, e occupavano la frontiera. 22La mattina, come furono alzati, il sole splendeva sulle acque, e i Moabiti videro, là dirimpetto a loro, le acque rosse come sangue; 23e dissero: "Quello è sangue! Quei re son di certo venuti alle mani fra loro e si son distrutti fra loro; or dunque, Moab, alla preda!" 24E si avanzarono verso il campo d’Israele; ma sorsero gl’Israeliti e sbaragliarono i Moabiti, che fuggirono d’innanzi a loro. Poi penetrarono nel paese, e continuarono a battere Moab. 25Distrussero le città; ogni buon pezzo di terra lo riempirono di pietre, ciascuno gettandovi la sua; turarono tutte le sorgenti d’acque e abbatterono tutti i buoni alberi. Non rimasero che le mura di Kir-Hareseth, e i frombolieri la circondarono e l’attaccarono. 26Il re di Moab, vedendo che l’attacco era troppo forte per lui, prese seco settecento uomini, per aprirsi, a spada tratta, un varco, fino al re di Edom; ma non poterono. 27Allora prese il suo figliuolo primogenito, che dovea succedergli nel regno, e l’offerse in olocausto sopra le mura. A questa vista, un profondo orrore s’impadronì degli Israeliti, che s’allontanarono dal re di Moab e se ne tornarono al loro paese.

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. 2He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made. 3Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; he didn’t depart from it. 4Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he rendered to the king of Israel the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams. 5But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. 6King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel. 7He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab to battle?” He said, “I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.” 8He said, “Which way shall we go up?” He answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.” 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. There was no water for the army, nor for the animals that followed them. 10The king of Israel said, “Alas! For Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.” 11But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?” One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.” 12Jehoshaphat said, “Yahweh’s word is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him. 13Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.” The king of Israel said to him, “No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.” 14Elisha said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you. 15But now bring me a minstrel.” When the minstrel played, the hand of Yahweh came on him. 16He said, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’ 17For thus says Yahweh, ‘You will not see wind, neither will you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your animals. 18This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand. 19You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’” 20In the morning, about the time of offering the offering, behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water. 21Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood on the border. 22They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood. 23They said, “This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the plunder!” 24When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites. 25They 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 springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth only they left its stones; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it. 26When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not. 27Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

1Joram nu, de zoon van Achab, werd koning over Israel te Samaria, in het achttiende jaar van Josafat, den koning van Juda, en hij regeerde twaalf jaren. 2En hij deed dat kwaad was in de ogen des HEEREN, doch niet gelijk zijn vader en gelijk zijn moeder; want hij deed dag opgerichte beeld van Baal weg, hetwelk zijn vader gemaakt had. 3Evenwel hing hij de zonden van Jerobeam, den zoon van Nebat, aan, die Israel deed zondigen; hij week daarvan niet af. 4Mesa nu, de koning der Moabieten, was een veehandelaar, en bracht op aan den koning van Israel honderd duizend lammeren, en honderd duizend rammen met de wol. 5Maar het geschiedde, als Achab gestorven was, dat de koning der Moabieten van den koning van Israel afviel. 6Zo toog de koning Joram ter zelfder tijd uit Samaria, en monsterde gans Israel. 7En hij ging heen, en zond tot Josafat, den koning van Juda, zeggende: De koning der Moabieten is van mij afgevallen, zult gij met mij trekken in den oorlog tegen de Moabieten? En hij zeide: Ik zal opkomen; zo zal ik zijn, gelijk gij zijt, zo mijn volk als uw volk, zo mijn paarden als uw paarden. 8En hij zeide: Door welken weg zullen wij optrekken? Hij dan zeide: Door den weg der woestijn van Edom. 9Alzo toog de koning van Israel heen, en de koning van Juda, en de koning van Edom; en als zij zeven dagreizen omgetogen waren, zo had het leger en het vee, dat hen navolgde, geen water. 10Toen zeide de koning van Israel: Ach, dat de HEERE deze drie koningen geroepen heeft, om die in der Moabieten hand te geven! 11En Josafat zeide: Is hier geen profeet des HEEREN, dat wij door hem den HEERE mochten vragen? Toen antwoordde een van de knechten des konings van Israel, en zeide: Hier is Elisa, de zoon van Safat, die water op Elia's handen goot. 12En Josafat zeide: Des HEEREN woord is bij hem. Zo togen tot hem af de koning van Israel, en Josafat, en de koning van Edom. 13Maar Elisa zeide tot den koning van Israel: Wat heb ik met u te doen? Ga heen tot de profeten uws vaders, en tot de profeten uwer moeder. Doch de koning van Israel zeide tot hem: Neen, want de HEERE heeft deze drie koningen geroepen, om die in der Moabieten hand te geven. 14En Elisa zeide: Zo waarachtig als de HEERE der heirscharen leeft, voor Wiens aangezicht ik sta, zo ik niet het aangezicht van Josafat, den koning van Juda, opnam, ik zou u niet aanschouwen, noch u aanzien! 15Nu dan, brengt mij een speelman. En het geschiedde, als de speelman op de snaren speelde, dat de hand des HEEREN op hem kwam. 16En hij zeide: Zo zegt de HEERE: Maakt in dit dal vele grachten. 17Want zo zegt de HEERE: Gijlieden zult geen wind zien, en gij zult geen regen zien; nochtans zal dit dal met water vervuld worden, zodat gij zult drinken, gij en uw vee, en uw beesten. 18Daartoe is dat slecht in de ogen des HEEREN, Hij zal ook de Moabieten in ulieder hand geven. 19En gij zult alle vaste steden, en alle uitgelezene steden slaan, en zult alle goede bomen vellen, en zult alle waterfonteinen stoppen; en alle goede stukken lands zult gij met stenen verderven. 20En het geschiedde des morgens, als men het spijsoffer offert, dat er, ziet, water door den weg van Edom kwam, en het land met water vervuld werd. 21Toen nu al de Moabieten hoorden, dat koningen opgetogen waren, om tegen hen te strijden, zo werden zij samen geroepen, van al degenen af, die den gordel aangordden en daarboven, en zij stonden aan de landpale. 22En toen zij zich des morgens vroeg opmaakten, en de zon over dat water oprees, zagen de Moabieten dat water tegenover rood, gelijk bloed. 23En zij zeiden: Dit is bloed; de koningen hebben voorzeker zich met het zwaard verdorven, en hebben de een de ander verslagen; nu dan aan den buit, gij Moabieten! 24Maar als zij aan het leger van Israel kwamen, maakten zich de Israelieten op, en sloegen de Moabieten; en zij vloden van hun aangezicht; ja, zij kwamen in het land, slaande ook de Moabieten. 25De steden nu braken zij af, en een iegelijk wierp zijn steen op alle goede stukken lands, en zij vulden ze, en stopten alle waterfonteinen, en velden alle goede bomen, totdat zij in Kir-hareseth alleen de stenen daarvan lieten overblijven; en de slingeraars omsingelden en sloegen hen. 26Doch als de koning der Moabieten zag, dat hem de strijd te sterk was, nam hij tot zich zevenhonderd mannen, die het zwaard uittogen, om door te breken tegen den koning van Edom; maar zij konden niet. 27Toen nam hij zijn eerstgeboren zoon, die in zijn plaats koning zou worden, en offerde hem ten brandoffer op den muur. Daaruit werd een zeer grote toorn in Israel; daarom trokken zij van hem af, en keerden weder in hun land.