1 Joram, son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and he reigned twelve years.
2 He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, though not like his father and mother. He did away with the pillar of Baal that his father had made,
3 but he still held fast unceasingly to the sins which Jeroboam, son of Nebat, caused Israel to commit.
4 Now Mesha, king of Moab, who raised sheep, used to pay the king of Israel as tribute a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.
5 But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
6 King Joram set out from Samaria and mustered all Israel.
7 Then he sent Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, the message: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you come with me to Moab to fight?” He replied, “I will. You and I are as one, your people and my people, and your horses and my horses as well.”