But they understood not this saying, and it was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
And they beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the fountains of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir-hareseth [only] they left the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it,…