2 Reis 3:4

4 Ora, Messa, rei de Moabe, tinha muitos rebanhos e pagava como tributo ao rei de Israel cem mil cordeiros e a lã de cem mil carneiros.

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 o SENHOR reprova, mas não como seu pai e sua mãe, pois derrubou a coluna sagrada de Baal, que seu pai havia feito.

3 No entanto, persistiu nos pecados que Jeroboão, filho de Nebate, levara Israel a cometer e deles não se afastou.

4 Ora, Messa, rei de Moabe, tinha muitos rebanhos e pagava como tributo ao rei de Israel cem mil cordeiros e a lã de cem mil carneiros.

5 Mas, depois que Acabe morreu, o rei de Moabe rebelou-se contra o rei de Israel.

6 Então, naquela ocasião, o rei Jorão partiu de Samaria e mobilizou todo o Israel.