This is but a slight thing in the sight of the LORD; He will also give the Moabites into your hand.God has just promised them a miracle, water from dry ground, filling all the trenches they were commanded to dig in a valley. And then God calls this a small thing, because he's also going to give them victory over their enemies. God even uses those trenches and the water He puts in them as part of the method for their victory.
It's always interesting to see what God considers to be minor, and what He considers major or important. We would consider giving three armies water in a desert to be miraculous, because without that water they could not fight. But God then uses that water to trick the Moabites into leaving their defensive positions and exposing themselves to the armies, where they're wiped out. So the miracle God calls minor directly results in the major miracle, and only by obeying God in the first place was either possible.
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