to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)כַ֥ר
kar
a ram (as full-grown and fat), including a battering-ram (as butting); hence, a meadow (as for sheep); also a pad or camel's saddle (as puffed out)מֹשֵֽׁל
mâshal
to ruleאֶ֖רֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)מִסֶּ֣לַע
Çelaʻ
from — Sela, the rock-city of Idumaeaמִדְבָּ֑רָה
midbâr
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)אֶל
ʼêl
near, with or among; often in general, toהַ֖ר
har
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)בַּת
bath
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)צִיּֽוֹן
Tsîyôwn
Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
Isaiah 16:1 · Masoretic Text (WLC)
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Send lambs to the ruler of the land [you Moabites], From Sela [that is, Petra in Edom] through the wilderness to the mountain of the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem). [2 Kin 3:4, 5]
Sending lambs as tribute pictures Moab's fugitives seeking Judah's protection - a plea for asylum embedded in an oracle otherwise devoted to Moab's own downfall.
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Today's memory verse · from this session
“Send lambs to the ruler of the land [you Moabites], From Sela [that is, Petra in Edom] through the wilderness to the mountain of the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem). [2 Kin 3:4, 5]”
Sending lambs as tribute pictures Moab's fugitives seeking Judah's protection - a plea for asylum embedded in an oracle otherwise devoted to Moab's own downfall.