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2 Kings 3:14 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Elisha said, “As the LORD 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. "

2 Kings 3:14

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

13 Elisha 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 the LORD has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”

14 Elisha said, “As the LORD 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.

15 But now bring me a musician.” When the musician played, the LORD’s hand came on him.

16 He said, “The LORD says, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’

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2 Chronicles 25:7

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2 Kings 3:1

"Now 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."

2 Kings 3:2

"He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, but not like his father and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made."

2 Kings 3:3

"Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from them."

2 Kings 3:4

"Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams."

2 Kings 3:5

"But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel."

2 Kings 3:6

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

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