²⁷ When he had arrived, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was in front of them. ²⁸ And he said to them, “Pursue them, for the Lord has handed over your enemies the Moabites to you.” So they went down after him and seized the ^[a]fords of the Jordan opposite Moab and did not allow anyone to cross. ²⁹ They struck down at that time about ten thousand Moabite men, all strong, courageous men; not a man escaped.