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II Kings Chapter 3

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Jehu, the murderer of his father, is killed by his own son Jehoram, who is then murdered by the people of Israel. The chapter shows how the wickedness of Jehu leads to his downfall and the fear that follows. It warns that divine judgment follows rebellion.

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(1) Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
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II Kings 1:17II Kings 8:16I Kings 22:51

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I Kings 16:29I Kings 22:51II Kings 8:16II Chronicles 20:31I Kings 14:21I Kings 16:23

(2) And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
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II Kings 6:31II Kings 6:32II Kings 21:6II Kings 21:20I Samuel 15:19I Kings 16:19I Kings 16:33I Kings 21:20I Kings 21:25II Kings 9:22II Kings 9:34I Kings 21:5

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Judges 17:3Judges 17:4Ruth 2:19Luke 12:53Leviticus 26:1II Kings 10:27

(3) Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
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II Kings 10:20II Kings 10:21II Kings 10:22II Kings 10:23II Kings 10:24II Kings 10:25II Kings 10:26II Kings 10:27II Kings 10:28II Kings 10:29II Kings 10:30II Kings 10:31

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II Kings 13:2II Kings 10:29II Kings 13:6II Kings 13:11II Kings 14:24II Kings 15:9

(4) And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
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Genesis 13:2Genesis 26:13Genesis 26:14II Chronicles 26:10Job 1:3Job 42:12II Samuel 8:2I Chronicles 18:2Psalms 60:8Psalms 108:9Psalms 108:10Isaiah 16:1

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Judges 11:18Isaiah 15:1

(5) But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
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II Kings 1:1II Kings 8:20II Chronicles 21:8II Chronicles 21:9II Chronicles 21:10

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Judges 11:18II Kings 1:1II Kings 3:7Isaiah 15:1II Kings 8:27

(6) And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.
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I Samuel 11:8I Samuel 15:4II Samuel 24:1II Samuel 24:2II Samuel 24:3II Samuel 24:4II Samuel 24:5II Samuel 24:6II Samuel 24:7II Samuel 24:8II Samuel 24:9II Samuel 24:10

(7) And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
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I Kings 22:4I Kings 22:32I Kings 22:33II Chronicles 18:3II Chronicles 18:29II Chronicles 18:30II Chronicles 18:31II Chronicles 18:32II Chronicles 19:2II Chronicles 21:4II Chronicles 21:5II Chronicles 21:6

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I Kings 22:4Judges 11:18Isaiah 15:1II Kings 8:12II Chronicles 20:1Numbers 21:13

(8) And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
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Numbers 21:4Malachi 1:2Malachi 1:3

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II Samuel 8:14

(9) So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
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I Kings 22:27Exodus 15:22Exodus 17:1Numbers 20:2Numbers 20:4Numbers 21:5Numbers 33:14Exodus 11:8Judges 4:10

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Genesis 47:17I Kings 11:15II Samuel 8:14

(10) And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
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II Kings 6:33Genesis 4:13Psalms 78:34Psalms 78:35Psalms 78:36Proverbs 19:3Isaiah 8:21Isaiah 51:20

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Judges 11:18Isaiah 15:1

(11) But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
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I Kings 22:7Psalms 74:9Amos 3:7II Kings 3:1II Kings 3:3Joshua 9:14Judges 20:8Judges 20:9Judges 20:10Judges 20:11Judges 20:18Judges 20:23

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Isaiah 22:16I Kings 22:7II Kings 2:2II Chronicles 18:6Numbers 23:1Numbers 23:29

(12) And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
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II Kings 2:14II Kings 2:15II Kings 2:21II Kings 2:24I Samuel 3:19I Samuel 3:20I Samuel 3:21II Kings 2:25II Kings 5:8II Kings 5:9II Kings 5:15Isaiah 49:23

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I Kings 22:4I Kings 22:8I Kings 22:32I Kings 22:49II Kings 8:16II Chronicles 18:7

(13) And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
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Ezekiel 14:3Ezekiel 14:4Ezekiel 14:5Matthew 8:29John 2:4II Corinthians 5:16II Corinthians 6:15Judges 10:14Ruth 1:15Proverbs 1:28Jeremiah 2:27Jeremiah 2:28

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II Kings 4:38Luke 12:53Judges 11:18I Samuel 10:11I Kings 18:4I Kings 18:13

(14) And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, 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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II Kings 5:16I Kings 17:1I Kings 18:15II Chronicles 17:3II Chronicles 17:4II Chronicles 17:5II Chronicles 17:6II Chronicles 17:7II Chronicles 17:8II Chronicles 17:9II Chronicles 19:3II Chronicles 19:4

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Zechariah 14:4I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17I Kings 18:15

(15) But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
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I Samuel 10:5I Samuel 16:23I Samuel 18:10I Chronicles 25:2I Chronicles 25:3Ephesians 5:18Ephesians 5:19I Kings 18:46Ezekiel 1:3Ezekiel 3:14Ezekiel 3:22Ezekiel 8:1

(16) And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.
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II Kings 4:3Numbers 2:18Numbers 2:16Numbers 2:17

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Joshua 15:8Joshua 18:16

(17) For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
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I Kings 18:36I Kings 18:37I Kings 18:38I Kings 18:39Psalms 84:6Psalms 107:35Isaiah 41:17Isaiah 41:18Isaiah 43:19Isaiah 43:20Isaiah 48:21Exodus 17:6

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Joel 2:23Genesis 47:17Deuteronomy 11:14Amos 4:7Zechariah 10:1I Kings 19:11

(18) And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
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I Kings 3:13Jeremiah 32:17Jeremiah 32:27Luke 1:37Ephesians 3:20II Kings 20:10I Kings 16:31Isaiah 7:13Isaiah 49:6Ezekiel 8:17I Kings 20:13I Kings 20:28

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Isaiah 30:26Isaiah 60:19Luke 11:36John 12:36

(19) And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
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II Kings 13:17Numbers 24:17Judges 6:16I Samuel 15:3I Samuel 23:2Deuteronomy 20:19Deuteronomy 20:20

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I Chronicles 29:2Isaiah 41:19Ezekiel 17:24Joel 1:12I Kings 7:10Genesis 2:9

(20) And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
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Exodus 29:39Exodus 29:40I Kings 18:36Daniel 9:21Psalms 78:15Psalms 78:16Psalms 78:20Isaiah 35:6Isaiah 35:7

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II Kings 16:15Ezekiel 46:14I Kings 8:64II Samuel 8:14

(21) And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.
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I Kings 20:11Ephesians 6:14

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32Ezekiel 41:7Numbers 34:6Joshua 15:11Ezekiel 47:17

(22) And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
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Genesis 22:3I Samuel 29:10Genesis 20:8Genesis 21:14Genesis 28:18Genesis 31:55

(23) 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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II Kings 6:18II Kings 6:19II Kings 6:20II Kings 7:6Exodus 15:9Judges 5:30II Chronicles 20:25Isaiah 10:14

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Judges 11:18Isaiah 16:7Jeremiah 44:25Zephaniah 2:9Isaiah 27:7Ezekiel 32:25

(24) And 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.
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Joshua 8:20Joshua 8:21Joshua 8:22Judges 20:40Judges 20:41Judges 20:42Judges 20:43Judges 20:44Judges 20:45Judges 20:46I Thessalonians 5:3I Thessalonians 5:4

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Numbers 2:17II Kings 3:22II Kings 7:5II Kings 8:21I Samuel 14:21II Samuel 8:2

(25) And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
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II Kings 3:19Judges 9:45II Samuel 8:2Isaiah 37:26Isaiah 37:27Genesis 26:15Genesis 26:18II Chronicles 32:4Deuteronomy 20:19Deuteronomy 20:20Deuteronomy 2:9Isaiah 16:7

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I Chronicles 29:2I Kings 7:10I Samuel 17:49Isaiah 28:16Daniel 2:35Leviticus 23:40

(26) And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
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II Kings 3:9Amos 2:1

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Judges 11:18I Samuel 31:3II Kings 3:7Numbers 22:3Jeremiah 51:22Jeremiah 51:23

(27) Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
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Genesis 22:2Genesis 22:13Deuteronomy 12:31Judges 11:31Judges 11:39Psalms 106:37Psalms 106:38Ezekiel 16:20Micah 6:7I Samuel 14:36I Samuel 14:37I Samuel 14:38

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II Samuel 16:8I Kings 14:20II Chronicles 22:1I Kings 2:11I Chronicles 29:27II Chronicles 26:6

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