2 Kings 3:4

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

War with Moab

⁴^[a]Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he had to deliver annually^[b] to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

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Footnotes

3.4-27 The Moabite Stone, or Stele of Mesha, in the Louvre, found in Trans-Jordan in 1868, describes the liberation of Moab from Israel, but understandably is silent about its subjection.
2 Kings 3:4 Tg: Heb lacks annually

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