10. And Melech Yisroel said, Alas that Hashem hath called these three melachim together, to deliver them into the yad Moav!
11. But Yehoshaphat said, Is there not here a navi of Hashem, that we may inquire of Hashem through him? And one of the avadim of Melech Yisroel answered and said, Here is Elishah Ben Shaphat, which poured mayim on the hands of Eliyahu.
12. And Yehoshaphat said, The Devar Hashem is with him. So Melech Yisroel and Yehoshaphat and Melech Edom went down to him.
13. And Elishah said unto Melech Yisroel, What have I to do with thee? Get thee to the [Ba'al] nevi'im of Avicha, and to the nevi'im of Immecha. And Melech Yisroel said unto him, No; for Hashem hath called these three melachim, to deliver them into the yad Moav.
14. And Elishah said, As Hashem Tzva'os liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Yehoshaphat Melech Yehudah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
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.