¹Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.

¹Joram pa, sin Ahabov je zakraljeval nad Izraelom v Samariji v osemnajstem letu Josafata, kralja na Judovem, in je vladal dvanajst let.

²He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

²In delal je, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODOVIH, pa ne kakor oče njegov in mati njegova; kajti odpravil je Baalov steber, ki ga je bil naredil oče njegov.

³Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; he didn’t depart from it.

³Vendar pa se je oklepal grehov Jeroboama, sinu Nebafovega, s katerimi je ta zapeljeval v greh Izraela, ni jih opustil.

⁴Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he rendered to the king of Israel the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.

⁴Mesa pa, kralj Moabcev, je redil veliko ovac in je dajal kralju Izraelovemu volne od stotisoč jagnjet in od stotisoč ovnov.

⁵But it happened, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

⁵Ko pa je Ahab umrl, se je izneveril moabski kralj kralju Izraelovemu.

⁶King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.

⁶V tem času je šel kralj Joram iz Samarije in preštel vsega Izraela.

⁷He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab to battle?” He said, “I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

⁷In pošlje k Josafatu, kralju Judovemu, in mu sporoči: Kralj Moabcev se mi je izneveril; pojdeš li z menoj bojevat se zoper Moabce? On reče: Pojdem; bodem naj kakor ti, ljudstvo moje naj bo kakor ljudstvo tvoje, konji moji kakor konji tvoji.

⁸He said, “Which way shall we go up?” He answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”

⁸In vpraša: Po katerem potu pojdemo gori? Odgovori: Po poti Edomske puščave.

⁹So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days’ journey. There was no water for the army, nor for the animals that followed them.

⁹Gredo torej kralj Izraelov, kralj Judov in kralj edomski. In ko so hodili sedem dni okrog, ni bilo vode za vojsko in živino, ki je šla za njimi.

¹⁰The king of Israel said, “Alas! For Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”

¹⁰In kralj Izraelov reče: Gorje! GOSPOD je sklical te tri kralje, da jih izda Moabcem v pest!

¹¹But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?” One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.”

¹¹Josafat pa reče: Ni li tu proroka GOSPODOVEGA, da vprašamo po njem GOSPODA? In odgovori eden iz hlapcev kralja Izraelovega in reče: Elizej, sin Safatov, je tu, ki je vlival vodo Eliju na roke.

¹²Jehoshaphat said, “The word of Yahweh is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

¹²Josafat pa reče: Pri njem je beseda GOSPODOVA. Gredo torej doli k njemu kralj Izraelov in Josafat in kralj edomski.

¹³Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.” The king of Israel said to him, “No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”

¹³A Elizej veli kralju Izraelovemu: Kaj imam s teboj? Pojdi k prorokom očeta svojega in k prorokom matere svoje! Kralj Izraelov mu reče: Nikar! Ni li GOSPOD poklical teh treh kraljev, da jih izda Moabcem v pest?

¹⁴Elisha said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.

¹⁴Elizej reče: Kakor res živi GOSPOD, ki stojim pred njega obličjem, ako bi se ne oziral na Josafata, kralja Judovega, na tebe bi se ne ozrl, ne te pogledal!

¹⁵But now bring me a minstrel.” It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Yahweh came on him.

¹⁵Zdaj pa mi pripeljite igralca na strune! In ko je igralec udarjal na strune, je prišla nad njega roka GOSPODOVA.

¹⁶He said, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’

¹⁶In veli: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Naredite v tej dolini struge tu in tam!

¹⁷For thus says Yahweh, ‘You will not see wind, neither will you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your animals.

¹⁷Kajti tako pravi GOSPOD: Ne boste videli ne vetra, ne dežja, in vendar se ta dolina napolni z vodo, da boste pili vi in vaša drobnica in goved.

¹⁸This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.

¹⁸To pa je še malo v očeh GOSPODOVIH; on izda tudi Moabce vam v roko,

¹⁹You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’”

¹⁹da udarite vsako utrjeno mesto in vsako izbrano mesto in posekate vsako dobro drevo in zamašite vse studence in pokvarite vsako dobro njivo s kamenjem.

²⁰It happened in the morning, about the time of offering the offering, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

²⁰In zgodilo se je zjutraj, ob času jedilne daritve, glej, voda se privali po edomski poti in se razlije po tistem kraju.

²¹Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood on the border.

²¹Ko pa slišijo vsi Moabci, da se gredo kralji bojevat zoper nje, skličejo vse, ki so mogli nositi orožje, in še druge, ter stopijo na mejo.

²²They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood.

²²In ko zgodaj zjutraj vstanejo in solnce zasije nad vodo, se zdi Moabcem, da je voda njim nasproti rdeča kakor kri;

²³They said, “This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the spoil!”

²³in reko: To je kri! Kralji so se pač bojevali med seboj in ubili drug drugega. Sedaj pa, Moab, precej na plen!

²⁴When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites.

²⁴Ko pa pridejo k taboru Izraelovemu, se vzdignejo Izraelci in pobijajo Moabce, da zbeže pred njimi; in oni pridero v Moabsko deželo ter jih pobijajo.

²⁵They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth only they left its stones; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it.

²⁵In razvalijo mesta in na vsako dobro njivo mečejo vsi kamenje, da so ga bile polne, in zamaše vse studence in posekajo vsa dobra drevesa – da so ostali samo v Kir-haresetu še kameni; toda pračarji so ga obdali in streljali nanj.

²⁶When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.

²⁶In ko je videl moabski kralj, da je bitka prehuda zanj, vzame s seboj sedemsto mož, oboroženih z mečem, da se pririje do kralja edomskega; a niso mogli.Tedaj vzame sina svojega prvenca, ki je imel kraljevati na mestu njegovem, in ga daruje v žgalno žrtev vrh zidu. In pride velika jeza zoper Izraela; in odrinejo od njega in se povrnejo v deželo svojo.

²⁷Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

²⁷Tedaj vzame sina svojega prvenca, ki je imel kraljevati na mestu njegovem, in ga daruje v žgalno žrtev vrh zidu. In pride velika jeza zoper Izraela; in odrinejo od njega in se povrnejo v deželo svojo.