Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, 4 but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it. 3:26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle, 5 he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack 6 the king of Edom, but they failed. 3:27 So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel, 7 so they broke off the attack 8 and returned to their homeland.
1:3 Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you 18 about our common salvation, I now feel compelled 19 instead to write to encourage 20 you to contend earnestly 21 for the faith 22 that was once for all 23 entrusted to the saints. 24 1:4 For certain men 25 have secretly slipped in among you 26 – men who long ago 27 were marked out 28 for the condemnation I am about to describe 29 – ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil 30 and who deny our only Master 31 and Lord, 32 Jesus Christ.
1:5 Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts 33 once for all 34 ) that Jesus, 35 having saved the 36 people out of the land of Egypt, later 37 destroyed those who did not believe. 1:6 You also know that 38 the angels who did not keep within their proper domain 39 but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept 40 in eternal chains 41 in utter 42 darkness, locked up 43 for the judgment of the great Day.