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.
In Kir-haraseth, х ba-Qiyr-Charaaset (H7025), in the fortress of Haraseth, or Kirheres-fortress of brick (Isaiah 16:7; Isaiah 16:11; Jeremiah 48:31; or Kir Moab, Isaiah 15:1)] - (now Kerak), castle of Moab, then probably the only fortress in the land (Porter's 'Handbook,' p. 59; Robinson, 'Biblical Researches,' 2:, p. 296). Since the Hebrews, in reducing this place, 'left the stones thereof,' the name, from being kareseth, a potsherd or earthen vessel, was changed into hares, brick, from the baked bricks of which its wall was built (cf. Josephus, 'Antiquities,' b. 9:, ch. 3:, sec. 2).