2 Kings 3:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep-farmer; and he gave regularly to the king of Israel the wool from a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand sheep.

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  • 2 Sam 8:2 : 2 And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.
  • 1 Chr 18:2 : 2 And he overcame Moab, and the Moabites became his servants and gave him offerings.
  • 2 Chr 26:10 : 10 And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming.
  • Job 1:3 : 3 And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.
  • Job 42:12 : 12 And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
  • Ps 60:8 : 8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I put out my shoe; over Philistia will a glad cry be sounded.
  • Ps 108:9-9 : 9 Moab is my washpot; on Edom is the resting-place of my shoe; over Philistia will I send out a glad cry. 10 Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom?
  • Isa 16:1-2 : 1 And they will send ... to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. 2 For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.
  • Gen 13:2 : 2 Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.
  • Gen 26:13-14 : 13 And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more; 14 For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.

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  • 2 Kgs 3:5-7
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    78%

    5But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel.

    6At that time, King Jehoram went out from Samaria and got all Israel together in fighting order.

    7And he sent to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has got free from my authority: will you go with me to make war on Moab? And he said, I will go with you: I am as you are, my people as your people, and my horses as your horses.

  • 2 Chr 18:2
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    2And after some years he went down to Samaria to see Ahab. And Ahab made a feast for him and the people who were with him, putting to death great numbers of sheep and oxen; and he got Jehoshaphat to go with him to Ramoth-gilead.

  • 1 Sam 25:2
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    2Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.

  • 2 Chr 17:11
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    11And some of the Philistines took offerings to Jehoshaphat, and made him payments of silver; and the Arabians gave him flocks, seven thousand, seven hundred sheep, and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats.

  • Judg 3:30
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    30So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.

  • Num 31:36-39
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    36And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

    37Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.

    38The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's part was seventy-two;

    39The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of which the Lord's part was sixty-one.

  • 2 Kgs 3:26-27
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    26And when the king of Moab saw that the fight was going against him, he took with him seven hundred men armed with swords, with the idea of forcing a way through to the king of Aram, but they were not able to do so.

    27Then he took his oldest son, who would have been king after him, offering him as a burned offering on the wall. So there was great wrath against Israel; and they went away from him, back to their country.

  • 2 Chr 29:32-33
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    70%

    32The number of burned offerings which the people took in was seventy oxen, a hundred male sheep, and two hundred lambs: all these were for burned offerings to the Lord.

    33And the holy things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.

  • Amos 2:1
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    1These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.

  • 2 Kgs 3:3
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    3But still he did the same sins which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do; he went on in them.

  • Isa 16:1
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    1And they will send ... to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

  • 2 Kgs 1:1
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    1After the death of Ahab, Moab made itself free from the authority of Israel.

  • Num 31:32-33
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    32Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

    33And seventy-two thousand oxen,

  • Ezek 45:15
    69%

    15And one lamb from the flock out of every two hundred, from all the families of Israel, for a meal offering and for a burned offering and for peace-offerings, to take away their sin, says the Lord.

  • Num 22:3-4
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    3And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel.

    4Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is clear that this great people will be the destruction of everything round us, making a meal of us as the ox does of the grass of the field. At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of Moab.

  • Hos 4:16
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    16For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled; now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.

  • 2 Chr 30:24
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    24For Hezekiah, king of Judah, gave to the people for offerings, a thousand oxen and seven thousand sheep; and the rulers gave a thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests made themselves holy.

  • 1 Kgs 4:23
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    23Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.

  • Prov 27:26
    69%

    26The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:

  • 2 Kgs 3:10
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    10And the king of Israel said, Here is trouble: for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them into the hands of Moab.

  • 1 Chr 29:21
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    21And they made offerings to the Lord, and gave burned offerings to the Lord, on the day after, a thousand oxen, a thousand sheep, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and a great wealth of offerings for all Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 3:18
    69%

    18And this will be only a small thing to the Lord: in addition he will give the Moabites into your hands.

  • Num 29:20
    68%

    20And on the third day eleven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark;

  • 1 Kgs 8:63
    68%

    63And Solomon gave to the Lord for peace-offerings, twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel kept the feast of the opening of the Lord's house.

  • Num 29:23
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    23And on the fourth day ten oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

  • 2 Chr 35:7
    68%

    7And Josiah gave lambs and goats from the flock as Passover offerings for all the people who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen: these were from the king's private property.

  • Num 31:43-44
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    68%

    43(Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

    44And thirty-six thousand oxen,

  • 1 Sam 8:17
    68%

    17He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.

  • Ezek 34:3
    68%

    3You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.

  • Ezek 34:17
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    17And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats.

  • Num 6:14
    68%

    14And make his offering to the Lord; one he-lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a burned offering, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a sin-offering, and one male sheep, without a mark, for peace-offerings,

  • 2 Kgs 3:23-24
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    23Then they said, This is blood: it is clear that destruction has come on the kings; they have been fighting one another: now come, Moab, let us take their goods.

    24But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them;

  • 2 Chr 15:11
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    11And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

  • 2 Kgs 3:21
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    21Now all Moab, hearing that the kings had come to make war against them, got together all who were able to take up arms and went forward to the edge of the country.

  • Deut 32:14
    68%

    14Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.

  • Zech 11:4
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    4This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;

  • 2 Sam 12:2
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    2The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;

  • 2 Sam 8:12
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    12The nations of Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon and the Philistines and the Amalekites and the goods he had taken from Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.