Liber Secundus Regum

II Regum, chapter 3, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 3 Vulgate

   1 Ioram vero filius Achab regnavit super Israel in Samaria anno decimo octavo Iosaphat regis Iudae regnavitque duodecim annis.
   2 Et fecit malum coram Domino, sed non sicut pater suus et mater; tulit enim lapidem Baal, quem fecerat pater eius.
   3 Verumtamen in peccatis Ieroboam filii Nabat, qui peccare fecit Israel, adhaesit nec recessit ab eis.
   4 Porro Mesa rex Moab nutriebat pecora multa et solvebat regi Israel centum milia agnorum et lanam centum milium arietum.
   5 Cumque mortuus fuisset Achab, praevaricatus est foedus, quod habebat cum rege Israel.
   6 Egressus est igitur rex Ioram in die illa de Samaria et recensuit universum Israel;
   7 profectusque misit ad Iosaphat regem Iudae dicens: "Rex Moab recessit a me. Vis venire mecum contra Moab ad proelium?". Qui respondit: "Ascendam. Qui meus est tuus est, populus meus populus tuus, equi mei equi tui".
   8 Dixitque: "Per quam viam ascendemus?". At ille respondit: "Per desertum Idumaeae".
   9 Perrexerunt igitur rex Israel et rex Iudae et rex Edom et circuierunt per viam septem dierum; nec erat aqua exercitui et iumentis, quae sequebantur eos.
   10 Dixitque rex Israel: "Heu! Congregavit nos Dominus tres reges, ut traderet in manu Moab".
   11 Et ait Iosaphat: "Estne hic propheta Domini, ut interrogemus Dominum per eum?". Et respondit unus de servis regis Israel: "Est hic Eliseus filius Saphat, qui fundebat aquam super manus Eliae".
   12 Et ait Iosaphat: "Est apud eum sermo Domini". Descenditque ad eum rex Israel et Iosaphat et rex Edom.
   13 Dixit autem Eliseus ad regem Israel: "Quid mihi et tibi est? Vade ad prophetas patris tui et ad prophetas matris tuae". Et ait illi rex Israel: "Non, congregavit enim Dominus tres reges hos, ut traderet eos in manu Moab?".
   14 Dixit autem Eliseus: "Vivit Dominus exercituum, in cuius conspectu sto, quod si non vultum Iosaphat regis Iudae revererer, ne attendissem quidem te nec respexissem;
   15 nunc autem adducite mihi psaltem". Cumque caneret psaltes, facta est super eum manus Domini,
   16 et ait: "Haec dicit Dominus: Facite in torrente hoc fossas et fossas.
   17 Haec enim dicit Dominus: Non videbitis ventum neque pluviam, et torrens replebitur aquis; et bibetis vos et pecora et iumenta vestra.
   18 Parumque hoc est in conspectu Domini; insuper tradet etiam Moab in manu vestra,
   19 et percutietis omnem civitatem munitam et omnem urbem electam et universum lignum fructiferum succidetis cunctosque fontes aquarum obturabitis et omnem agrum egregium operietis lapidibus".
   20 Factum est igitur mane, quando sacrificium offerri solet, et ecce aquae veniebant per viam Edom. Et repleta est terra aquis.
   21 Universi autem Moabitae audientes quod ascendissent reges, ut pugnarent adversum eos, convocaverunt omnes, qui accingi poterant balteo et desuper, et steterunt in terminis.
   22 Primoque mane surgentes et, orto iam sole super aquis, viderunt Moabitae e contra aquas rubras quasi sanguinem
   23 dixeruntque: "Sanguis est gladii! Pugnaverunt reges contra se et caesi sunt mutuo. Nunc perge ad praedam, Moab!".
   24 Perrexeruntque in castra Israel. Porro consurgens Israel percussit Moab, at illi fugerunt coram eis. Venerunt igitur subsequentes et percutientes Moab.
   25 Et civitates destruxerunt et omnem agrum optimum mittentes singuli lapides repleverunt; et universos fontes aquarum obturaverunt et omnia ligna fructifera succiderunt, ita ut muri tantum Cirhareseth remanerent; et circumdederunt civitatem fundibularii et aggressi sunt.
   26 Quod cum vidisset rex Moab, praevaluisse scilicet hostes, tulit secum septingentos viros educentes gladium, ut irrumperet ad regem Edom; et non potuerunt.
   27 Arripiensque filium suum primogenitum, qui regnaturus erat pro eo, obtulit holocaustum super murum. Et facta est indignatio magna super Israel; statimque recesserunt ab eo et reversi sunt in terram suam.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
   2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
   3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
   4 ¶ And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
   5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
   6 ¶ And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.
   7 And 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, and my horses as thy horses.
   8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
   9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
   10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
   11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
   12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
   13 And 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 the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
   14 And Elisha said, As the LORD 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.
   15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
   16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.
   17 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.
   18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
   19 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.
   20 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.
   21 ¶ 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.
   22 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:
   23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
   24 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.
   25 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 Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
   26 ¶ 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.
   27 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.