2 Kings 3:25-27

Good News Translation

²⁵ and destroying their cities. As they passed by a fertile field, every Israelite would throw a stone on it until finally all the fields were covered; they also stopped up the springs and cut down the fruit trees. At last only the capital city of Kir Heres^[a] was left, and the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

²⁶ When the king of Moab realized that he was losing the battle, he took seven hundred swordsmen with him and tried to force his way through the enemy lines and escape to the king of Syria,^[b] but he failed. ²⁷ So he took his oldest son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him on the city wall as a sacrifice to the god of Moab. The Israelites were terrified^[c] and so they drew back from the city and returned to their own country.