Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 3:25

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: onely in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof : howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it .

The Stones which happily had been with great care and pains pickt out of the Land, and laid in heaps after the manner, they dispersed again, and slew the people, who should have cleansed them again.

Which was the Royal and strongest City of the Moabites, Isa. 16. 7, 11. into which the remnant of the Moabites were gathered, where also their King was with them.

The Walls and Buildings of this City onely were left; other Cities, and, in a manner, their whole Countrey being utterly destroyed.

Either, First, Such as slung small Stones against those that stood upon the Wall to desend it. Or rather, Secondly, Such as slung great Stones against the Walls to break them down, according to the manner of those times.

i. e. Made breaches in the Walls, by which they might enter into the City, and take it.

Marginal references: Heb. until he le[illegible: 1+ letters]t the stones thereof in Kir-haraseth.