1. Now 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.
2. He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
3. Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from them.
4. Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.
5. But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
6. King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.
7. He 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.”
8. He said, “Which way shall we go up?”He answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”
9. So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.
10. The king of Israel said, “Alas! For the Lord has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”