列王纪下 3:25

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們毀壞城市，各人向一切肥沃的田地拋擲石頭，把田地填滿了，又堵塞一切水泉，砍下各種佳美的樹木，直到吉珥．哈列設只剩下石頭，甩石的兵把它包圍，攻擊它。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
拆 毁 摩 押 的 城 邑 ， 各 人 抛 石 填 满 一 切 美 田 ， 塞 住 一 切 水 泉 ， 砍 伐 各 种 佳 树 ， 只 剩 下 吉 珥 哈 列 设 的 石 墙 ； 甩 石 的 兵 在 四 围 攻 打 那 城 。

Contextual Overview

²⁰ The next morning, about the time the sacrifice was offered, water came from the direction of Edom and filled the valley. ²¹ All the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. So they gathered everyone old enough to put on armor and waited at the border. ²² But when the Moabites got up early in the morning, the sun was shining on the water. They saw the water across from them, and it looked as red as blood. ²³ Then they said, "This is blood! The kings must have fought and killed each other! Come, Moabites, let's take the valuables from the dead bodies!" ²⁴ When the Moabites came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites came out and fought them until they ran away. Then the Israelites went on into the land, killing the Moabites. ²⁵ They tore down the cities and threw rocks all over every good field. They stopped up all the springs and cut down all the good trees. Kir Hareseth was the only city with its stones still in place, but the men with slingshots surrounded it and conquered it, too. ²⁶ When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too much for him, he took seven hundred men with swords to try to break through to the king of Edom. But they could not break through. ²⁷ Then the king of Moab took his oldest son, who would have been king after him, and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. So there was great anger against the Israelites, who left and went back to their own land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

beat down: 2 Kings 3:19, Judges 9:45, 2 Samuel 8:2, Isaiah 37:26, Isaiah 37:27

stopped: Genesis 26:15, Genesis 26:18, 2 Chronicles 32:4

and felled: Deuteronomy 20:19, Deuteronomy 20:20

only in: etc. Heb. until he left the stones thereof in Kir-haraseth

Kirharaseth: Supposed to be the same as Ar, or Areopolis, the capital of Moab. Deuteronomy 2:9, Isaiah 16:7, Isaiah 16:11, Jeremiah 48:31, Jeremiah 48:36, Kir-heres

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 3:5 - to cast Isaiah 15:1 - Kir

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they beat down the cities,.... Demolished the walls of them, and houses in them, wherever they came:

and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; which they had taken out of the walls and houses they pulled down; or which they picked up in the highway, as they passed along, being a stony country; or which being laid in heaps, gathered out of the fields, they took and scattered them all over them:

and they stopped all the wells of water; with stones and dirt:

and felled all the good trees; fruit bearing ones;

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only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; not able to demolish it, it being a strong fortified city, the principal of the kingdom, and into which the king of Moab had thrown himself, and the remains of his forces; of which see Isaiah 16:7,

howbeit, the slingers went about it, and smote it; smote the soldiers that appeared upon the walls of it; though Kimchi, and other Jewish writers, understand it of engineers, who cast out large stones from a sort of machines then in use, to batter down and break through the walls of cities.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Kir-Haraseth, also Kir-Hareseth, is identified almost certainly with the modern Kerak, a strong city on the highland immediately east of the southern part of the Dead Sea. It was the great fortress of Moab, though not the capital, which was Rabbath or Rabbah. It was an important strong-hold at the time of the Crusades, and is still a place of great strength. Kir seems to have meant “fortress.” It is found in Cir-cesium, Car-chemish, etc.

Kir-Haraseth resisted all the attempts to dismantle it; but the slingers found places on the hills which surrounded it, from where they could throw their stones into it and harass the garrison, though they could not take the town.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 3:25. On every good piece of land — On all cultivated ground, and especially fields that were sown.

Only in Kir-haraseth — This was the royal city of the Moabites, and, as we learn from Scripture, exceedingly strong; (see Isaiah 16:7; Isaiah 16:11); so that it is probable the confederate armies could not easily reduce it. The slingers, we are informed, went about the wall, and smote all the men that appeared on it, while no doubt the besieging army was employed in sapping the foundations.