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And Elisha said,
As the LORD of the hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee nor see thee.
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But now bring me a minstrel. And when the minstrel played, the hand of the LORD came upon him;
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and he said, Thus hath the LORD said, Make this valley full of ditches.
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For thus hath the LORD said, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet this valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye and your livestock and your beasts.
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And this is
but a light thing in the sight of the LORD; he will also deliver the Moabites into your hands.
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And ye shall smite every fenced city and every choice city and shall fell every good tree and stop every fountain of water and mar every good piece of land with stones.
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And it came to pass in the morning, when the present was offered, that water came by the way of Edom, and the land was filled with water.
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And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to gird on a girdle and upward and stood in the border.
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And when they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water before them
as red as blood;
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and they said, This
is blood; the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another. Now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
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But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites so that they fled before them, but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in
their country.