I. Krvas II. 22.

B.C. 896. |shall not be from thence any_more
| JUDGMENT
| ON THE
| CHILDREN OF BETH-EL. 23. See v. 11. Bee 36.16.
| JEHORAM'S REIGN OVER ISRAEL, 1. Ch, 1.17. j. Jehoram, pevovah
241 orKin. 16. 31-33.
s, statue,
3.1 Kin. 12. 26-33.
| JEHORAM SENDS TO | JEHOSHA-
| THE KinGs OF ISRAEL,
. | Me:
death or barren land.”
2 So the waters were_healed unto xthis xday, according_to the_saying_of Elisha which he spake.
2% And he went_up from thence unto Beth-él: and as he +was_going_up by the way, there came_forth little / chil- dren out_of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, “*Go_up, thou_bald_ head ; -go_up, thou_bald_head.”
2% And he turned_| back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the_name_
of ‘the Lorp. And there came_forth
"|two she_bears out_of the wood, and tare
forty and two children of them.
2% And he went from thence to mount exCarmel, and from thence he returned to s Samaria,
NOW Jj Jehoram the_son_of Ahab began_to_reign over Israél in Sa- maria the_eighteenth year_of Jehosha- phat king_of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
2 And he wrought xevil in the_sight_ of Jthe Lorp; but not like his father, and like his mother : for he put_away ethe_simage_of xBaal that his father had_made.
3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the_ sins_of Jeroboam the_son_of Nebat, which made -Israél to_sin; he departed not therefrom.
4 And Mesha king_of Moab was a sheepmaster, and «rendered unto the_ king_of Israél a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
5 But it came_to_pass, when Ahab was_dead, that the_king_of Moab re- belled against the_king_of Israél.
6 And xking Jehoram went out_of Sa- maria the same xtime, and numbered all Israél.
7 And he went and sent to Jehosha- phat the_king_of Judah, saying, “'The_ king_of Moab -hath_rebelled against wilt_thou_go with me against Moab to xbattle?” And he said, “I will_go_up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.”
And he said, “Which xway shall_ we_go_up?” And he answered, “The_ way_through the_wilderness_of Edom.”
9So the_king_of Israél went, and the_ king_of Judah, and the_king_of Edom : and they wv 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 Israél said, “Alas! that Jthe Lorp shath_called xthese three xkings together, 22. deliver them into the_hand_of Moab
il But Jehoshaphat sid “Ts there ‘I not here a prophet of / the Lorp, that we may_inquire of J-the Lorp by him?” And one of the_king_of Israél’s servants answered and said, “Here is Elisha the_son_of Shaphat, which pour- ed =water on the_hands_of Elijah.”
12 And Jehoshaphat said,“ The_word_ of Jthe Lorp ‘is with him.” So the_ king_of Israél and Jehoshaphat and the_king_of Edom went_down to him.