3:4a Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder,

Mesha, the king of Moab, was a sheep breeder.

-or-

The king of Moab ⌊at that time⌋ was named Mesha. He owned many sheep.

-or-

⌊During that time⌋ ⌊King Mesha ruled the country of Moab⌋ . He was the owner of many flocks/sheep.

3:4b and he would render to the king of Israel

He was expected/supposed to supply the king of Israel

-or-

From them he was obliged⌊ ⌋ to deliver/give to the king of Israel

-or-

He was forced to pay taxes to ⌊his overlord⌋ the king of Israel,

3:4c a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

with one hundred thousand lambs and the wool from one hundred thousand rams.

-or-

100,000 lambs and the hair ⌊cut⌋ from 100,000 sheep.

© 2020 by SIL International®

Made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.

All Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise indicated, are from The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible.

BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.