Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.

Lambs

Bible References

A sheepmaster

Genesis 13:2
Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.
Genesis 26:13
and the man became rich and kept getting richer until he was very wealthy.
2 Chronicles 26:10
Since he had many cattle both in the Judean foothills and the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many wells. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands.
Job 1:3
His estate included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east.
Job 42:12
So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Rendered

2 Samuel 8:2
He also defeated the Moabites, and after making them lie down on the ground, he measured them off with a cord. He measured every two cord lengths of those to be put to death and one length of those to be kept alive. So the Moabites became David’s subjects and brought tribute.
1 Chronicles 18:2
He also defeated the Moabites, and they became David’s subjects and brought tribute.
Psalm 60:8
Moab is My washbasin.
I throw My sandal on Edom;
I shout in triumph over Philistia.”
Psalm 108:9
Moab is My washbasin;
I throw My sandal on Edom.
I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

Lambs

Isaiah 16:1
Send lambs to the ruler of the land,
from Sela in the desert
to the mountain of Daughter Zion.

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