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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Mesha (King living at the time of Divided Monarchy)
The king of Moab who paid Israel heavy tribute until Ahab died, then broke away. With the armies of Israel, Judah and Edom about to overrun him, he sacrificed his own son on the city wall to Chemosh. His own account of the revolt survives on the Moabite Stone, found at Dibon in 1868, and it names the "house of Omri."
The king of Moab who paid Israel heavy tribute until Ahab died, then broke away. With the armies of Israel, Judah and Edom about to overrun him, he sacrificed his own son on the city wall to Chemosh. His own account of the revolt survives on the Moabite Stone, found at Dibon in 1868, and it names the "house of Omri."
King of Moab in the ninth century BC who paid heavy tribute to Israel until Ahab's death, then rebelled (2 Kings 3:4-5). When the combined armies of Israel, Judah, and Edom nearly overwhelmed him, he sacrificed his own son on the city wall in a desperate act to Chemosh, his god. Mesha's own account of his revolt survives on the Moabite Stone, a black basalt inscription he had carved and which was found at Dibon in 1868; it independently confirms the biblical conflict and even names the "house of Omri."
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- 2 Kings 3:4
