From Nave’s Topical Bible
Mesha
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 5Passages listed
- 3Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- 1. King of Moab
- Tributary to Ahab2 Kings 3:42 Kings 3:5
- 2. Son of Caleb1 Chronicles 2:42
- 3. A place in possession of the JoktanitesGenesis 10:30
- 4. A Benjamite1 Chronicles 8:9
The passages, in Bible order (5)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 5 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 10:30
Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
Commentary on Genesis 10:301 voice
Shem, the third son of Noah, had five sons, who inhabited the land that began at Euphrates, and reached to the Indian Ocean. For Elam left behind him the Elamites, the ancestors of the Persians.
Josephus· Antiquities of the Jews - Book I, Chapter 6, Sections 4Jewish
- 2 Kings 3:4
Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.
Commentary on 2 Kings 3:42 voices
Was a sheepmaster - The original is נקד naked, of which the Septuagint could make nothing, and therefore retained the Hebrew word νωκηδ: but the Chaldee has מרי גיתי marey githey, “a sheepmaster;” Aquila has ποιμνιοτροφος; and Symmachus, τρεφων βοσκηματα; all to the same sense. The original signifies one who marks or brands, probably from the marking of sheep. He fed many sheep, etc., and had them all marked in a particular way, in order to ascertain his property. A hundred thousand lambs - The Chaldee and Arabic have a hundred thousand fat oxen.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
Taxes were then paid not so much in money as in the commodities of the country, which was an ease to the subject, whether it was an advantage to the prince or no. The revolt of Moab was a great loss to Israel, yet Ahaziah sat still in sloth and ease.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- 2 Kings 3:5
But after the death of Ahab, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
Commentary on 2 Kings 3:51 voice
But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. Who then was Ahaziah; but either through the pusillanimity of his temper, or the sickness that attended him, or the shortness of his reign, he took no steps to the reduction of him, or to oblige him to pay his tribute, which he neglected to do, and is meant by his rebellion.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Chronicles 2:42
The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel: Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph, and Mareshah his second son, who was the father of Hebron.
Commentary on 1 Chronicles 2:421 voice
Now the sons of Caleb - This was not Caleb the son of Jephunneh, but Caleb the son of Hezron, 1Ch 2:18, 1Ch 2:50. But some think that Caleb the son of Hezron was the grandson of Caleb, son of Jephunneh; but this is probably fanciful. The father of Ziph - “The prince of the Ziphites.” - T.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- 1 Chronicles 8:9
His sons by his wife Hodesh:
Commentary on 1 Chronicles 8:92 voices
And he begat of Hodesh his wife,.... That is, he, I say, begat, namely, Shaharaim; the Targum makes this Hodesh to be the same with Baara, called so because she was newly espoused; but wrongly: the sons begotten of her were the seven following; Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcham, Jeuz, Shachia, and Mirma. These were his sons; the sons of Shaharaim by his wife Hodesh: heads of the fathers; of the houses or families of their father.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
He begat of Hodesh his wife - In the preceding verse it is said that Hushim and Baara were his wives; and here it is said he begat of Hodesh his wife, etc. And then his children by Hushim are mentioned, but not a word of Baara! It is likely therefore that Hodesh was another name for Baara, and this is asserted by the Targum: And he begot of Baara, that is Chodesh, his wife; so called because he espoused her anew. It is supposed that he had put her away before, and now remarried her.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical