4And 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.
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And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: …
And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph. …
Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Jehoram, the son of Ahab, and brother of Ahaziah, is here upon the throne of Israel; and, though he was but a bad man, yet two commendable things are here recorded of him:— I. That he removed his father’s idols. He did evil in many things, but not like his father Ahab or his mother Jezebel, 2 Kgs. 3:2. Bad he was, but not so bad, so overmuch wicked , as Solomon speaks, Eccl. 7:17. Perhaps Jehoshap…
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