Lièwángjìxià 3:4

4 Móyē wáng Mǐshā mù yǎng xǔduō yáng , mĕi nián jiāng shí wàn yánggāo de maó hé shí wàn gōng miányáng de maó gĕi Yǐsèliè wáng jìn gòng .

Lièwángjìxià 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.

Lièwángjìxià 3:4 In-Context

2 Tā xíng Yēhéhuá yǎn zhōng kàn wéi è de shì , dàn bù zhì xiàng tā fùmǔ suǒ xíng de , yīnwei chúdiào tā fù suǒ zào bā lì de zhù xiàng .

3 Ránér , tā tiē jìn ní bā de érzi Yéluóbōān shǐ Yǐsèliè rén xiàn zaì zuì lǐ de nà zuì , zǒng bù líkāi .

4 Móyē wáng Mǐshā mù yǎng xǔduō yáng , mĕi nián jiāng shí wàn yánggāo de maó hé shí wàn gōng miányáng de maó gĕi Yǐsèliè wáng jìn gòng .

5 Yà hā sǐ hòu , Móyē wáng beìpàn Yǐsèliè wáng .

6 Nàshí Yuēlán wáng chū sǎ Mǎlìyà , shǔ diǎn Yǐsèliè zhòngrén .