Orthodox Jewish Bible

Melachim Bais 3:15-27 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

15. But now bring me menagen. And it came to pass, when the menagen played, that the Yad Hashem came upon him.

16. And he said, Thus saith Hashem, Make this valley full of ditches.

17. For thus saith Hashem, Ye shall not see ruach, neither shall ye see geshem; yet this valley shall be filled with mayim, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your behemah (livestock).

18. And this is but a light thing in the eyes of Hashem; He will deliver Mo'av also into your yad.

19. And ye shall strike every fortified city, every ir mivchor, and shall fell every etz tov, stop up kol ma'yan mayim, mar every good allotment of land with avanim.

20. And it came to pass in the boker, when the minchah was offered, that, hinei, there came mayim by the derech of Edom, and HaAretz was filled with mayim.

21. And when kol Mo'av heard that the melachim were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that could bear arms, and older, and stood at the border.

22. And they rose up early in the boker, and the shemesh shone upon the mayim, and Mo'av saw the mayim on the other side, and to them it looked as red as dahm;

23. And they said, This is dahm; the melachim are surely slain, and they have struck one another; now therefore, Moav, to the plunder!

24. And when they came to the machaneh Yisroel, Yisroel rose up and struck Mo'av, so that they fled before them; but they went forward striking Mo'av, even invading their country.

25. And they beat down the towns, and on every good allotment of land every ish cast his even (stone), and filled it; and they stopped up kol ma'yan mayim, and felled kol etz tov; only in Kir Charaset left they the avanim thereof; howbeit the slingers surrounded it, and struck it.

26. And when Melech Moav saw that the milchamah was chazak against him, he took with him 700 ish that drew cherev, to break through even unto Melech Edom; but they could not.

27. Then he took bno habechor that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for an olah upon the chomah. And there was ketzef gadol (great fury) against Yisroel; and they withdrew, and returned to their own land.