2 Kings · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 El año 18 de Josafat, rey de Judá, Joram, hijo de Acab, fue rey de Israel en Samaria, y reinó 12 años.
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 Hizo lo malo ante Yavé, aunque no tanto como su padre y su madre, pues quitó la imagen de baal que erigió su padre.
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, persistió en los pecados de Jeroboam, hijo de Nabat, con los cuales estimuló a pecar a Israel. No se apartó de ellos.
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 Entonces Mesa, rey de Moab, era criador de ovejas y tributaba al rey de Israel 100.000 corderos, y la lana de 100.000 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 cuando Acab murió, sucedió que el rey de Moab se rebeló contra el rey de Israel.
5 But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
6 Aquel día el rey Joram salió de Samaria y pasó revista a todo Israel.
6 King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.
7 También envió a decir a Josafat, rey de Judá: El rey de Moab se rebeló contra mí. ¿Vas conmigo a la guerra contra Moab? Y él respondió: Sí, voy. Yo soy como tú, mi pueblo como tu pueblo y mis caballos como los tuyos.
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 Y añadió: ¿Por cuál camino iremos? Y [Joram] respondió: Por el camino del desierto de Edom.
8 Then he said, “Which way shall we go up?” Jehoram answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”
9 El rey de Israel, el rey de Judá, y el rey de Edom salieron. Rodearon y anduvieron por el desierto siete días, hasta que no hubo agua para el campamento ni para las bestias que los seguían.
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 Entonces el rey de Israel dijo: ¡Ay! ¡Yavé trajo a estos tres reyes para entregarlos en manos de Moab!
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 preguntó: ¿No hay aquí un profeta de Yavé para que consultemos a Yavé por medio de él? Entonces uno de los esclavos del rey de Israel respondió: Aquí está Eliseo, hijo de Safat, quien vertía agua en las manos de Elías.
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 Y Josafat dijo: La Palabra de Yavé está con él. Y el rey de Israel, el rey de Edom y Josafat fueron a él.
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 Eliseo preguntó al rey de Israel: ¿Qué tengo yo contigo? Vete a los profetas de tu padre y tu madre. Pero el rey de Israel le respondió: No, porque Yavé reunió a estos tres reyes para entregarlos en manos 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 Entonces Eliseo dijo: ¡Vive Yavé de las huestes, ante Quien estoy, que si no fuera por respeto a la presencia de Josafat, rey de Judá, no te haría caso ni te miraría!
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 Pero, tráiganme ahora un tañedor. Sucedió que mientras el tañedor tañía, la mano de Yavé vino sobre Eliseo
15 But now bring me a musician.” When the musician played, Yahweh’s hand came on him.
16 y dijo: Yavé dice: Hagan en este valle muchas zanjas,
16 He said, “Yahweh says, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’
17 porque Yavé dice: No verán viento ni lluvia, pero este valle se llenará de agua, y beberán ustedes, sus bestias y ganado.
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 Si esto es poco ante Yavé, Él también entregará a los moabitas en manos de ustedes.
18 This is an easy thing in Yahweh’s sight. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
19 Destruirán toda ciudad fortificada y todo pueblo importante, talarán todo árbol bueno, cerrarán toda fuente de agua y arruinarán con piedras toda tierra fértil.
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 Sucedió que a la hora de ofrecer el sacrificio de la mañana, ciertamente llegó agua por el camino de Edom, y la tierra se llenó de agua.
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 todos los de Moab oyeron que los reyes iban a luchar contra ellos, convocaron a todos, desde los que apenas se ataban las armas en adelante, y tomaron posición en la 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 Cuando se levantaron por la mañana, el sol brillaba sobre las aguas. Los de Moab vieron desde lejos las aguas rojas como sangre
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 y dijeron: ¡Es sangre! Ciertamente los reyes se atacaron el uno al otro y se mataron unos con otros. Ahora pues, Moab: ¡Al 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, se levantaron los israelitas y atacaron a los de Moab, quienes huyeron de ellos. Pero los persiguieron y mataron a los moabitas.
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 Asolaron las ciudades. En todas las tierras fértiles cada uno echó su piedra y la llenaron. Cerraron toda fuente de agua. Talaron todos los árboles buenos. Incluso a Kir-herés solo le quedaron piedras, después que los honderos la cercaron y la destruyeron.
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 la batalla arreciaba contra él, tomó consigo 700 hombres que sacaban espada, para atacar al rey de Edom, pero no pudieron.
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 primogénito que iba a reinar en su lugar y lo ofreció en holocausto sobre el muro. Hubo una gran ira contra Israel. Ellos salieron de allí y volvieron 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 (25)
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
- 7 1 Kings 22:4; 2 Chronicles 18:3; 2 Chronicles 22:10–12; 2 Chronicles 22:3–4; 2 Chronicles 18:29–32
- 8 Malachi 1:2–3; Numbers 21:4
- 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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