or as
their enemies stood round about them, some of them were cut to pieces,
and others of them were dispersed, and fled to their own country. And
when the kings fell into the land of Moab, they overthrew the cities
that were in it, and spoiled their fields, and marred them, filling them
with stones out of the brooks, and cut down the best of their trees, and
stopped up their fountains of water, and overthrew their walls to their
foundations. But the king of Moab, when he was pursued, endured a siege;
and seeing his city in danger of being overthrown by force, made a
sally, and went out with seven hundred men, in order to break through
the enemy's camp with his horsemen, on that side where the watch seemed
to be kept most negligently; and when, upon trial, he could not get
away, for he lighted upon a place that was carefully watched, he
returned into the city, and did a thing that showed despair and the
utmost distress; for he took his eldest son, who was to reign after him,
and lifting him up upon the wall, that he might be visible to all the
enemies, he offered him as a whole burnt-offering to God, whom, when the
kings saw, they commiserated the distress that was the occasion of it,
and were so affected, in way of humanity and pity, that they raised the
siege, and every one returned to his own house. So Jehoshaphat came to
Jerusalem, and continued in peace there, and outlived this expedition
but a little time, and then died, having lived in all sixty years, and
of them reigned twenty-five. He was buried in a magnificent manner in
Jerusalem, for he had imitated the actions of David.

CHAPTER 4. Jehoram Succeeds Jehoshaphat; How Joram, His Namesake, King
Of Israel, Fought With The Syrians; And What Wonders Were Done By The
Prophet Elisha.

1. Jehoshapat had a good number of children; but he appointed his eldest
son Jehoram to be his successor, who had the same name with his mother's
brother, that was king of Israel, and the son of Ahab. Now when the king
of Israel was come out of the land of Moab to Samaria, he had with him
Elisha the prophet, whose acts I have a mind to go over particularly,
for they were illustrious, and worthy to be related, as we have them set
down in the sacred books.

2. For they say that the widow of Obadiah [7] Ahab's steward, came to
him, and said, that he was not ignorant how her husband had preserved
the prophets that were to be slain by Jezebel, the wife of Ahab; for
she said that