14. And Elisha said, As the Lord of hosts lives, before Whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would neither look at you nor see you [King Joram].
15. But now bring me a minstrel. And while the minstrel played, the hand and power of the Lord came upon [Elisha].
16. And he said, Thus says the Lord: Make this [dry] brook bed full of trenches.
17. For thus says the Lord: You shall not see wind or rain, yet that ravine shall be filled with water, so you, your cattle, and your beasts [of burden] may drink.
18. This is but a light thing in the sight of the Lord. He will deliver the Moabites also into your hands.
19. You 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. In the morning, when the sacrifice was offered, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
21. When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, young and old, gathered and drew up at the border.
22. When they rose up early next morning, and the sun shone upon the water, the Moabites saw the water across from them as red as blood.
23. And they said, This is blood; the kings have surely been fighting and have slain one another. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!
24. But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them. And they went forward, slaying the Moabites as they went.
25. They beat down the cities [walls], and on every good piece of land every man cast a stone, covering it [with stones]. And they stopped all the springs of water and felled all the good trees, until only the stones [of the walls of Moab's capital city] of Kir-hareseth were left standing, and the slingers surrounded and took it.
26. And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was against him, he took with him 700 swordsmen to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not.
27. Then he [Moab's king] took his eldest son, who was to reign in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall [in full view of the horrified enemy kings]. And there was great indignation, wrath, and bitterness against Israel; and they [his allies Judah and Edom] withdrew from [Joram] and returned to their own land.