2 Reyes 3:4

Listen to 2 Reyes 3:4
4 Y Mesa, rey de Moab, era criador de ovejas, y pagaba al rey de Israel cien mil corderos y la lana de cien mil carneros.

2 Reyes 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.


FOOTNOTES:

F3 Geograph. l. 11. p. 362.
F4 Nat. Hist. l. 18. c. 3.
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2 Reyes 3:4 In-Context

2 E hizo lo malo ante los ojos del SE脩OR, aunque no como su padre y su madre, pues quit贸 el pilar sagrado de Baal que su padre hab铆a hecho.
3 Sin embargo, se aferr贸 a los pecados de Jeroboam, hijo de Nabat, con los que hizo pecar a Israel, y no se apart贸 de ellos.
4 Y Mesa, rey de Moab, era criador de ovejas, y pagaba al rey de Israel cien mil corderos y la lana de cien mil carneros.
5 Pero sucedi贸 que cuando Acab muri贸, el rey de Moab se rebel贸 contra el rey de Israel.
6 Y aquel mismo d铆a el rey Joram sali贸 de Samaria y alist贸 a todo Israel.
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