When Joram was king of Israel the Moabites baulked at their high taxes (100,000 lambs + the wool of 100,000 rams) so Joram formed an alliance with Judah and Edom to bring Moab into line. However on their 7-day march to confront Moab they ran out of water, so they went to Elisha for help. Elisha asked for a harpist to play and when he played the hand of the Lord came upon him and he prophesied that God would fill the land with water, not by rain but by a miracle. When the Moabites saw the water they thought it was blood from an internal fight of the enemy so they nonchalantly came to the camp of Israel where they were routed. When the king of Moab saw that the battle was lost he rallied 700 swordsmen to try and break through to Edom, but it was not enough. Such was the fury of the Moabites that their king sacrificed his son, who was heir to the throne, on the city wall and at that sight Israel withdrew.
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