2 Könige 3:4

4 Mesa aber, der Moabiter König, hatte viele Schafe und zinste dem König Israels Wolle von hunderttausend Lämmern und hunderttausend Widdern.

2 Könige 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.

2 Könige 3:4 In-Context

2 Und er tat, was dem HERRN übel gefiel; doch nicht wie sein Vater und seine Mutter. Denn er tat weg die Säule Baals, die sein Vater machen ließ.
3 Aber er blieb hangen an den Sünden Jerobeams, des Sohnes Nebats, der Israel sündigen machte, und ließ nicht davon.
4 Mesa aber, der Moabiter König, hatte viele Schafe und zinste dem König Israels Wolle von hunderttausend Lämmern und hunderttausend Widdern.
5 Da aber Ahab tot war, fiel der Moabiter König ab vom König Israels.
6 Da zog zur selben Zeit aus der König Joram von Samaria und ordnete das ganze Israel
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