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Kir-hareseth

Battles and sieges

c. 850 BCThe three kings besiege Mesha in Kir-hareseth 2 Kgs 3:21–27
Jehoram of Israel, Jehoshaphat of Judah and the king of Edom against Mesha king of Moab. Moab's land is laid waste; Mesha offers his eldest son on the wall and the kings withdraw.

2 Kgs 3:25: 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 Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
Isa 16:7: Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
Isa 16:11: Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.
Jer 48:31: Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kir-heres.
Jer 48:36: Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.

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