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2 Kings 3:15
“But now bring me a minstrel." It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Yahweh came on him.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 3
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.
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.
But now bring me a minstrel." It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Yahweh came on him.
He said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Make this valley full of trenches.
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.
About 2 Kings
The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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