2 Kings 3:4

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.

A sheepmaster

Job 42:12

Rendered

Lambs

Isaiah 16:1

Bible References

A sheepmaster

Abram was very rich in cattle, silver and gold.

And the man waxed mighty, and went forth and grew till he was exceeding great,

And he built towers in the wilderness and digged many wells. For he had much cattle, both in the valley and also in the plain; and plowmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved husbandry.

His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses, and a very great household: so that he was one of the most principal men among all them of the east country.

And the LORD made Job richer than he was before: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand asses.

Rendered

And he beat the Moabites and measured them with a line, making them lie along the earth; so that he brought two parts of them to death, and let one part live. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and paid tribute.

And he beat the Moabites, and the Moabites became David's servants and paid him tribute.

Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I stretch out my shoe; Philistia shall be glad of me.

Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I stretch out my shoe; upon Philistia will I triumph."

Lambs

Send the Lord of the world a lamb, from the rock that lieth toward the desert, unto the hill of the daughter Zion.