3:20 Sure enough, the next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water came flowing down from Edom and filled the land. 1 3:21 Now all Moab had heard that the kings were attacking, 2 so everyone old enough to fight was mustered and placed at the border. 3 3:22 When they got up early the next morning, the sun was shining on the water. To the Moabites, who were some distance away, the water looked red like blood. 3:23 The Moabites 4 said, “It’s blood! The kings are totally destroyed! 5 They have struck one another down! Now, Moab, seize the plunder!” 3:24 When they approached the Israelite camp, the Israelites rose up and struck down the Moabites, who then ran from them. The Israelites 6 thoroughly defeated 7 Moab. 3:25 They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. 8 They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree.
Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, 9 but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it. 3:26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle, 10 he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack 11 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, 12 so they broke off the attack 13 and returned to their homeland.