2 Reis 3:4

4 Ora, Messa, rei dos moabitas, era criador de ovelhas, e pagava de tributo ao rei de Israel cem mil cordeiros, e cem mil carneiros com a sua lã.

2 Reis 3:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 3:4

And Mesha king of Moab was a sheep master
With which his country abounded; he kept great numbers of them, and shepherds to take care of them; he traded in them, and got great riches by them; his substance chiefly consisted in them:

and rendered unto the king of Israel:
either as a present, or as an annual tribute:

an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool;
that is, upon them, unshorn, and so the more valuable; and it was usual for tributary nations to pay their tribute to those to whom they were subject in such commodities which they most abounded with; so the Cappadocians, as Strabo ^F3 relates, used to pay, as a tribute to the Persians, every year, 1500 horses and 2000 mules, and five myriads of sheep, or 50,000; and formerly, Pliny ^F4 says, the only tribute was from the pastures.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 Geograph. l. 11. p. 362.
F4 Nat. Hist. l. 18. c. 3.

2 Reis 3:4 In-Context

2 Fez o que era mau aos olhos do Senhor, porém não como seu pai, nem como sua mãe; pois tirou a coluna de Baal que seu pai fizera.

3 Contudo aderiu aos pecados de Jeroboão, filho de Nebate, com que este fizera Israel pecar, e deles não se apartou.

4 Ora, Messa, rei dos moabitas, era criador de ovelhas, e pagava de tributo ao rei de Israel cem mil cordeiros, e cem mil carneiros com a sua lã.

5 Sucedeu, porém, que, morrendo Acabe, o rei dos moabitas se rebelou contra o rei de Israel.

6 Por isso, nesse mesmo tempo Jorão saiu de Samária e fez revista de todo o Israel.