And he said unto them, Follow after me: for YY hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Yarden toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
And the Giladis took the passages of Yarden before the Efrayimites: and it was so, that when those Efrayimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilad said unto him, Art thou an Efrayimite? If he said, Nay;
And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.