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1 Jorán hijo de Acab comenzó su reinado sobre Israel durante el año décimo octavo del rey Josafat, de Judá, y reinó doce años. Su capital fue Samaria.
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 Fue un hombre muy perverso, pero no tanto como lo habían sido su padre y su madre, porque al menos él derribó el altar de Baal, que su padre había construido.
2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
3 Sin embargo, siguió practicando el gran pecado de Jeroboán hijo de Nabat, quien había hecho que el pueblo de Israel adorara ídolos.
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.
4 El rey Mesá, de Moab, y su pueblo eran criadores de ovejas. Pagaban a Israel un tributo anual de cien mil corderos y la lana de cien mil carneros;
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.
5 pero después de la muerte de Acab, el rey de Moab se rebeló contra Israel.
5 But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
6 Inmediatamente el rey Jorán convocó a todo Israel, y envió este mensaje al rey Josafat, de Judá: ―El rey de Moab se ha rebelado contra mí. ¿Me ayudarás a pelear contra ellos? ―Desde luego que sí —contestó Josafat—. Mi pueblo y mis caballos son tuyos, y están a tus órdenes. ¿Cuáles son tus planes de batalla? ―Atacaremos desde el desierto de Edom —respondió Jorán.
6 King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.
7 Not in this translation
7 He 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.”
8 Not in this translation
8 Then he said, “Which way shall we go up?” Jehoram answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”
9 Salieron los reyes de Israel y Judá con el rey de Edom y dieron un rodeo a través del desierto durante siete días; pero no había agua para los hombres ni para los animales de carga.
9 So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.
10 ―¿Qué haremos? —preguntó el rey de Israel—. El Señor nos ha traído aquí para que el rey de Moab nos derrote.
10 The king of Israel said, “Alas! For Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
11 Pero Josafat, rey de Judá, preguntó: ―¿No hay aquí algún profeta del Señor con nosotros? Si lo hay, podemos preguntarle qué hemos de hacer. ―Eliseo hijo de Safat, que era siervo de Elías, vive cerca de aquí —respondió uno de los oficiales del rey de Israel.
11 But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there a prophet of Yahweh here, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?” One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah, is here.”
12 ―Muy bien —respondió Josafat—. Él nos dará palabra del Señor. Entonces los reyes de Israel, Judá y Edom fueron a consultar a Eliseo.
12 Jehoshaphat said, “Yahweh’s word is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
13 ―No quiero nada contigo —le dijo Eliseo al rey Jorán, de Israel—. Ve y pregúntales a los falsos profetas de tu padre y de tu madre. Pero Jorán le respondió: ―No, porque es el Señor quien nos ha traído aquí para ser destruidos por el rey de Moab.
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 Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
14 ―Juro por el Señor mi Dios que no me preocuparía por ti, si no fuera por la presencia del rey Josafat, de Judá —respondió Eliseo—.
14 Elisha 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.
15 Trae a alguien que pueda tocar el arpa. Y mientras el músico tocaba el arpa, le llegó el mensaje del Señor a Eliseo.
15 But now bring me a musician.” When the musician played, Yahweh’s hand came on him.
16 ―El Señor dice que abran muchas zanjas en este valle seco,
16 He said, “Yahweh says, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’
17 pues, aunque no verán viento ni lluvia, este valle se llenará de agua, y tendrán suficiente para ustedes y para los animales.
17 For Yahweh says, ‘You will not see wind, neither will you see rain, yet that valley will be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your other animals.
18 Pero esto es sólo el comienzo, porque el Señor les dará la victoria sobre los moabitas.
18 This is an easy thing in Yahweh’s sight. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
19 Conquistarán sus mejores ciudades, aun las que están fortificadas; derribarán sus árboles frutales, taparán todas las fuentes de agua, y llenarán de piedras sus campos.
19 You 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.’”
20 Y así fue. Al día siguiente, a la hora de ofrecer el sacrificio de la mañana, desde Edom comenzó a correr el agua, y todo el lugar quedó inundado.
20 In the morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
21 Cuando la gente de Moab se enteró de que los reyes avanzaban hacia ellos, movilizaron a todo hombre que pudiera pelear, anciano y joven, y se pusieron a lo largo de su frontera.
21 Now 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, young and old, and stood on the border.
22 Pero al amanecer del día siguiente, el sol proyectó su rojo resplandor sobre el agua, y esta se veía roja.
22 They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.
23 «¡Es sangre! —exclamaron—. Los reyes se han atacado y se han dado muerte unos a otros. ¡Vamos y recojamos el botín!».
23 They said, “This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the plunder!”
24 Pero cuando llegaron al campamento de Israel, los israelitas salieron y los atacaron. Entonces los moabitas emprendieron la huida. Los hombres de Israel avanzaron y entraron en el territorio de Moab, destruyendo todo lo que encontraban.
24 When 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 attacking the Moabites.
25 Destruyeron las ciudades, cubrieron de piedras todo terreno bueno para el cultivo, taparon los manantiales, y talaron los árboles frutales. Al final, sólo quedó el fuerte de Quir Jaréset, pero los hombres que estaban armados de hondas lo rodearon y conquistaron.
25 They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the springs of water and cut down all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones; however the men armed with slings went around it and attacked it.
26 Cuando el rey de Moab vio que había perdido la batalla, dirigió a setecientos de sus soldados en un último y desesperado intento de alcanzar al rey de Edom, pero fracasó.
26 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.
27 Entonces tomó a su hijo mayor, que era el heredero al trono, y lo sacrificó como holocausto sobre el muro. Esto hizo que los israelitas sintieran indignación, y por eso, se retiraron y regresaron a su tierra.
27 Then he took his oldest 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.
People & places in this chapter
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Jehoram
Ahab's son, who succeeded his brother Ahaziah, reigned twelve years in Samaria, removed Baal's sacred pillar yet clung to Jeroboam's sins, campaigned against Moab with…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 1:17; 2 Kings 3:1; 2 Kings 3:8
Mesha
A sheep breeder who paid Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams, rebelled after Ahab's death, and offered his firstborn son as a burnt offering on…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 3:4
Shaphat
Named as the father of the prophet Elisha, from Abel-meholah.
Cited in the guide: 1 Kings 19:16; 1 Kings 19:19; 2 Kings 3:11
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Kings 1:17; 1 Kings 22:51; 2 Kings 8:16
- 2 2 Kings 10:18; 2 Kings 10:26–28; 1 Kings 21:25; Exodus 23:24; 2 Kings 9:34
- 3 1 Kings 14:16; 1 Kings 15:26; 2 Kings 15:18; 1 Kings 15:34; 2 Kings 14:24
- 4 Genesis 26:13–14; 2 Samuel 8:2; Job 1:3; 1 Chronicles 18:2; Psalm 60:8
- 5 2 Kings 1:1; 2 Kings 8:20; 2 Chronicles 21:8–10
- 6 1 Kings 20:27; 1 Samuel 15:4; 1 Samuel 11:8; 2 Samuel 24:1–25
- 9 1 Kings 22:47; Exodus 17:1; Numbers 20:2; Numbers 33:14; 1 Kings 22:27
- 10 Genesis 4:13; Proverbs 19:3; Psalm 78:34–36; Isaiah 51:20; 2 Kings 6:33
- 11 1 Kings 22:7; 1 Kings 19:21; 2 Kings 3:3; 2 Kings 2:25–3:1; Psalm 74:9
- 12 2 Kings 2:21; Isaiah 49:23; 2 Kings 2:24–25; 2 Kings 2:14–15; 1 Samuel 3:19–21
- 13 1 Kings 22:6; 1 Kings 18:19; 2 Kings 3:10; 1 Kings 22:22–25; Deuteronomy 32:37–39
- 14 2 Kings 5:16; 1 Kings 17:1; Jeremiah 1:18; 2 Chronicles 19:3–4; 1 Kings 14:5–18
- 15 1 Samuel 16:23; Ephesians 5:18–19; 1 Samuel 10:5; Ezekiel 1:3; 1 Kings 18:46
- 17 Psalm 107:35; Isaiah 41:17–18; Isaiah 48:21; Isaiah 43:19–20; Psalm 84:6
- 18 Luke 1:37; Jeremiah 32:27; Jeremiah 32:17; 2 Kings 20:10; Ephesians 3:20
- 19 1 Samuel 15:3; Judges 6:16; 2 Kings 13:17; 2 Kings 3:25; Numbers 24:17
- 20 Exodus 29:39–40; Isaiah 35:6–7; 1 Kings 18:36; Psalm 78:20; Psalm 78:15–16
- 21 1 Kings 20:11; Ephesians 6:14
- 23 2 Chronicles 20:25; Exodus 15:9; Judges 5:30; 2 Kings 6:18–20; 2 Kings 7:6
- 24 1 Thessalonians 5:3–4; Judges 20:40–46; Joshua 8:20–22
- 25 Jeremiah 48:36; Jeremiah 48:31; Isaiah 16:7; 2 Kings 3:19; Isaiah 16:11
- 26 Amos 2:1; 2 Kings 3:9
- 27 Micah 6:7; Deuteronomy 12:31; Judges 11:31; Ezekiel 16:20; Amos 2:1
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