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Cast every man his stone: the stones which haply had been with great care and pains picked out of the land, and laid in heaps after the manner, they dispersed again, and slew the people, who should have cleansed them again.
Kir-haraseth 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 stones thereof: the walls and buildings of this city only were left; other cities, and in a manner their whole country, being utterly destroyed.
The slingers; either, first, such as slung small stones against those that stood upon the wall to defend it; or rather, secondly, Such as slung great stones against the walls to break them down, according to the manner of those times.
Smote it, i.e. made breaches in the walls, by which they might enter into the city, and take it.