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And he said , Thus saith the LORD,Make this valley full of ditches.
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For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not seewind, neither shall ye seerain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink , both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
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And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
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And ye shall smite every fencedcity, and every choicecity, and shall fell every goodtree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every goodpiece of land with stones.
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And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered , that, behold, there camewater by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
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And when all the Moabitesheard 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 sunshone upon the water, and the Moabitessaw the water on the other side as red as blood:
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And they said , This is blood: the kings are surelyslain , and they have smittenoneanother: 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 fledbefore them: but they went forwardsmiting the Moabites, even in their country.
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And they beat down the cities, and on every goodpiece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the goodtrees: only in Kirharasethleft they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
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And when the king of Moabsaw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him sevenhundredmen that drewswords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.