Mesha
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Named at 2 Kings 3:4 as king of Moab: “Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.” 3:5 says, “But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel”, and at 3:6–7 King Jehoram sends to Jehoshaphat, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me.” At 3:26–27, when the king of Moab sees that the battle was too severe for him, he takes with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not; “Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall.” The Korean Revised Version reads 새끼 양 십만의 털과 수양 십만의 털 (the wool of one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams) at 3:4.
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- 2KI 3:4–8, engwebp
4Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.
5But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
6King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.
7He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab to battle?” He said, “I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
8Then he said, “Which way shall we go up?” Jehoram answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”
- 2KI 3:26–27, engwebp
26When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.
27Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
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Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.
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Current wording: Named at 2 Kings 3:4 as king of Moab: “Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.” 3:5 says, “But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel”, and at 3:6–7 King Jehoram sends to Jehoshaphat, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me.” At 3:26–27, when the king of Moab sees that the battle was too severe for him, he takes with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not; “Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall.” The Korean Revised Version reads 새끼 양 십만의 털과 수양 십만의 털 (the wool of one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams) at 3:4.
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