The enemy's destruction — internal conflict — 'For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, destroying them utterly, and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Mount Seir, they helped to destroy one another' (כי קמו בני עמון ומואב על ישבי שעיר להחרים והשמיד ואחרי כלותם בישבי שעיר עמדו איש בישר את אחיו להשחיתו). The narration of the enemy's destruction emphasizes divine irony — the coalition disintegrates through internal fratricide. The verb חרם (completely destroy) and its synonyms suggest total annihilation. The mechanism of destruction is psychological/divine confusion: each nation turns against the others. This reflects the pattern of divine judgment in which enemies destroy themselves (cf. Judg 7:22, where the Midianites fight among themselves). The Chronicler presents deliverance not as human military victory but as divine judgment on the invaders, executed through their own internal dissolution.

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