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[FONT="]And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.[/FONT]
And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
[h=1](2 Kings 3:2): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, but not as his father and mother had done. He got rid of the sacred stone of Baal that his father had made.
[h=1](2 Kings 3:3): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]3 Nevertheless he clung to the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them.
[FONT="]Now Mesha king of Moab[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="] raised sheep, and he had to pay the king of Israel a tribute of a hundred thousand lambs[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="] and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.[/FONT]
[FONT="]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.[/FONT]
[FONT="]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.[/FONT]
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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[FONT="]Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why do you want to involve me? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.”[/FONT] [FONT="]“No,” the king of Israel answered, “because it was the Lord who called us three kings together to deliver us into the hands of Moab.”[/FONT]
[h=1](2 Kings 3:14): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]14 Elisha said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look at you nor see you.
[h=1](2 Kings 3:15): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]15 But now bring me a harpist.” While the harpist was playing, the hand of the Lord came on Elisha