2 Kings 3:4

Meslia. See App-54 on "the Moabite stone".

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⁴ 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.

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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