Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

And felled

Bible References

Beat down

2 Kings 3:19
You will conquer all their beautiful fortified cities. You will cut down all their fruit trees, stop all their springs, and ruin all their fertile fields by covering them with stones.
Judges 9:45
The fighting lasted all day. Abimelech captured the city and killed its people. He tore down the city and covered the ground with salt.
2 Samuel 8:2
He defeated the Moabites. He made the prisoners lie down on the ground and put two out of every three of them to death. So the Moabites became his subjects and paid taxes to him.
Isaiah 37:26
Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it! And now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.

Stopped

Genesis 26:15
The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with dirt.
2 Chronicles 32:4
A large crowd gathered as they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land. They said: Why should the kings of Assyria find plenty of water?

And felled

Deuteronomy 20:19
This is what you must do whenever you blockade a city for a long time in order to capture it in war. Do not harm any of its fruit trees with an ax. You may eat the fruit. Never cut those trees down, because the trees of the field are not people you have come to blockade.