2Kings:3:20-27
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And it came to pass in the morning ,
when the meat offering was offered ,
that ,
behold ,
there came water by the way of Edom ,
and the country was filled with water .
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And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them ,
they gathered all that were able to put on armour ,
and upward ,
and stood in the border .
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And they rose up early in the morning ,
and the sun shone upon the water ,
and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood :
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And they said ,
This is blood :
the kings are surely slain ,
and they have smitten one another :
now therefore ,
Moab ,
to the spoil .
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And when they came to the camp of Israel ,
the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites ,
so that they fled before them :
but they went forward smiting the Moabites ,
even in their country .
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And they beat down the cities ,
and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone ,
and filled it ;
and they stopped all the wells of water ,
and felled all the good trees :
only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof ;
howbeit the slingers went about it ,
and smote it .
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And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him ,
he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords ,
to break through even unto the king of Edom :
but they could not .
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Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead ,
and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall .
And there was great indignation against Israel :
and they departed from him ,
and returned to their own land .