2 Kings 3:25

“And they beat down the cities, etc.] Demolished the walls of them, and houses in them, wherever they came: and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; which they had taken out of the walls and houses they pulled down; or which they picked up in the highway, as they passed along, being a stony country; or which being laid in heaps, gathered out of the fields, they took and scattered them all over them: and they stopped all the wells of water; with stones and dirt: and felled all the good trees; fruit bearing ones; (see Gill on “<120301>2 Kings 3:19”), only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; not able to demolish it, it being a strong fortified city, the…”

“Kir-haraseth--(now Kerak)--Castle of Moab--then, probably, the only fortress in the land.”

“Kir-Haraseth, also Kir-Hareseth, is identified almost certainly with the modern Kerak, a strong city on the highland immediately east of the southern part of the Dead Sea. It was the great fortress of Moab, though not the capital, which was Rabbath or Rabbah. It was an important strong-hold at the time of the Crusades, and is still a place of great strength. Kir seems to have meant “fortress.” It is found in Cir-cesium, Car-chemish, etc. Kir-Haraseth resisted all the attempts to dismantle it; but the slingers found places on the hills which surrounded it, from where they could throw their stones into it and harass the garrison, though they could not take the town. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Kir - haraseth - This was the royal city of the Moabites, into which the remnant of the Moabites were gathered, where also their king was with them. The stones - The walls and buildings of this city only were left; their whole country being destroyed. The slingers - Such as slung great stones against the walls to break them down, according to the manner of those times. Made breaches in the walls, by which they might enter the city, and take it. 4 Kings (2 Kings) 3:26”

“beat down: Kg2 3:19; Jdg 9:45; Sa2 8:2; Isa 37:26, Isa 37:27 stopped: Gen 26:15, Gen 26:18; Ch2 32:4 and felled: Deu 20:19, Deu 20:20 only in: etc. Heb. until he left the stones thereof in Kir-haraseth Kirharaseth: Supposed to be the same as Ar, or Areopolis, the capital of Moab. Deu 2:9; Isa 16:7, Isa 16:11; Jer 48:31, Jer 48:36, Kir-heres 4 Kings (2 Kings) 3:26”