2 Kings 3:24-26

Good News Translation

²⁴ But when they reached the camp, the Israelites attacked them and drove them back. The Israelites kept up the pursuit,^[a] slaughtering the Moabites 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^[b] 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,^[c] but he failed.