1
And Joram the son of Achab, reigned over Israel, in Samaria, in the eighteenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda. And he reigned twelve years.
2
And he did evil before the Lord, but not like his father and his mother: for he took away the statues of Baal, which his father had made.
3
Nevertheless, he stuck to the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he depart from them.
4
Now Mesa, king of Moab, nourished many sheep, and he paid to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with their fleeces.
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And when Achab was dead, he broke the league which he had made with the king of Israel.
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And king Joram went out that day from Samaria, and mustered all Israel.
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And he sent to Josaphat; king of Juda, saying: The king of Moab is revolted from me: come with me against him to battle. And he answered: I will come up: he that is mine, is thine: my people are thy people: and my horses, thy horses.
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And he said: Which way shall we go up? But he answered: By the desert of Edom.