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He defeated Moab, and the Moabites became subject to David and brought tribute.

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16 Send lambs
    to the ruler of the land,
from Sela, by way of the desert,
    to the mount of daughter Zion.(A)

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14 But they shall swoop down on the backs of the Philistines in the west;
    together they shall plunder the people of the east.
They shall put forth their hand against Edom and Moab,
    and the Ammonites shall obey them.(A)

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May he have dominion from sea to sea
    and from the River to the ends of the earth.(A)
May his foes[a] bow down before him,
    and his enemies lick the dust.(B)
10 May the kings of Tarshish and of the isles
    render him tribute;
may the kings of Sheba and Seba
    bring gifts.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 72.9 Cn: Heb those who live in the wilderness

29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem,
    kings bear gifts to you.(A)
30 Rebuke the wild animals that live among the reeds,
    the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples.
Trample[a] under foot those who lust after tribute;
    scatter the peoples who delight in war.[b](B)

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  1. 68.30 Cn: Heb Trampling
  2. 68.30 Meaning of Heb of 68.30 is uncertain

Moab is my washbasin;
    on Edom I hurl my shoe;
    over Philistia I shout in triumph.”(A)

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War with Moab

Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder who used to deliver to the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.(A) But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.(B)

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25 Every one of them brought a present, objects of silver and gold, garments, weaponry, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.

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She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones, and when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.

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He also defeated the Moabites and, making them lie down on the ground, measured them off with a cord; he measured two lengths of cord for those who were to be put to death and one length[a] for those who were to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.(A)

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  1. 8.2 Heb one full length

27 But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He would gouge out the right eye of each of them and would not grant Israel a deliverer. No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and had entered Jabesh-gilead.[a](A)

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  1. 10.27 Q ms: MT lacks Now Nahash . . . entered Jabesh-gilead.

29 At that time they killed about ten thousand of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; no one escaped. 30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years.(A)

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17 I see him but not now;
    I behold him but not near—
a star shall come out of Jacob,
    and a scepter shall rise out of Israel;
it shall crush the foreheads[a] of Moab
    and the heads[b] of all the Shethites.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 24.17 Or borderlands
  2. 24.17 Or territory