16He said, |Thus says Yahweh, 'Make this valley full of trenches.'


In Context

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

16 He said, |Thus says Yahweh, 'Make this valley full of trenches.'

17 For 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.

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

2 Kings 3:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:16and he said, "This is what the Lord says: Make this valley full of ditches.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:16And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:16And he said, Thus saith Jehovah, Make this valley full of trenches.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:16And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:16Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of this torrent full of ditches.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:16And he said, Thus saith Jehovah: Make this valley full of ditches.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:16And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of trenches.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:16and he saith, 'Thus said Jehovah, Make this valley ditches — ditches;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:16And he said, Thus said the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.