1
And Jehoram, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; and he was king for twelve years.
2
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.
3
But still he did the same sins which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do; he went on in them.
4
Now Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep-farmer; and he gave regularly to the king of Israel the wool from a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand sheep.
5
But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel.
6
At that time, King Jehoram went out from Samaria and got all Israel together in fighting order.
7
And he sent to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has got free from my authority: will you go with me to make war on Moab? And he said, I will go with you: I am as you are, my people as your people, and my horses as your horses.
8
And he said, Which way are we to go? And he said in answer, By the waste land of Edom.