10. The king of Israel said, “Bad news! God has gotten us three kings out here to dump us into the hand of Moab.”
11. But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there a prophet of God anywhere around through whom we can consult God?”One of the servants of the king of Israel said, “Elisha son of Shaphat is around somewhere—the one who was Elijah’s right-hand man.”
12. Jehoshaphat said, “Good! A man we can trust!” So the three of them—the king of Israel, Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom—went to meet him.
13. Elisha addressed the king of Israel, “What do you and I have in common? Go consult the puppet-prophets of your father and mother.”“Never!” said the king of Israel. “It’s God who has gotten us into this fix, dumping all three of us kings into the hand of Moab.”
20. In the morning—it was at the hour of morning sacrifice—the water had arrived, water pouring in from the west, from Edom, a flash flood filling the valley with water.
23. “Blood! Look at the blood!” they said. “The kings must have fought each other—a bloody massacre! Go for the loot, Moab!”