2 Kings 3:25-27

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²⁵ They destroyed the Moabites' towns. Each Israelite soldier threw a stone onto all the good fields, until they covered them with stones. They filled the springs so that they gave no water. They cut down all the good trees.

Only the city of Kir-Hareseth was still there with its stone walls.^[a] But the Israelite soldiers stood all around the city. They attacked it with stones from their slings. ²⁶ The king of Moab realized that he was not winning the battle. So he took 700 of his soldiers who had swords. They tried to attack their enemies and reach the king of Edom. But they failed to do that. ²⁷ So the king of Moab took his oldest son who would have become king after him. He killed him on the wall of the city as a burnt offering to their god.^[b] This made the Israelite soldiers become very upset. So they went away from the city and they returned to their own land.