3:25 They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered.38 They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree.
Only Kir Hareseth was left intact,39 but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.
tnHeb “and [on] every good portion they were throwing each man his stone and they filled it.” The vav + perfect (“and they filled”) here indicates customary action contemporary with the situation described in the preceding main clause (where a customary imperfect is used, “they were throwing”). See the note at 3:4.
39
tnHeb “until he had allowed its stones to remain in Kir Hareseth.”