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Mesha

King of Moab (South Of Jordan)

  • Traditionally c. 9th century BCE
  • Also called Mesha', Méšaʿ

A life on the record,
dated by its sources.

Roles, not beliefs

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Life

One office on record

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

What this means

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  1. Dates unrecorded king

Texts

In the texts

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Sources

Sources and evidence

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3 statements on this record

  • 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

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Text
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Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms lead image of the English Wikipedia article

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