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The Moabites, descendants of Lot through his elder daughter (<a href="/genesis/19-37.htm">Genesis 19:37</a>), were closely related to the Israelites but frequently found themselves in conflict with them.<br><br><b>Geography:</b> <br>Moab was located east of the Dead Sea, in what is now modern-day Jordan. The territory was characterized by its highlands and fertile plains, making it suitable for agriculture. The Arnon River marked its northern boundary, while the Zered River defined its southern limit.<br><br><b>Historical Context:</b> <br>The Moabites first appear in the biblical narrative during the time of the Exodus. As the Israelites journeyed to the Promised Land, they encountered Moab. Balak, the king of Moab, fearing the Israelites, sought to curse them through the prophet Balaam (Numbers 22-24). Despite Balak's intentions, God turned the curses into blessings for Israel.<br><br><b>Relations with Israel:</b> <br>The relationship between Moab and Israel was complex, marked by both hostility and cooperation. During the period of the Judges, Moab oppressed Israel for eighteen years until Ehud delivered them (<a href="/judges/3-12.htm">Judges 3:12-30</a>). Conversely, the Book of Ruth presents a more positive interaction, as Ruth, a Moabitess, becomes the great-grandmother of King David (Ruth 1-4).<br><br><b>Prophetic Pronouncements:</b> <br>The prophets frequently spoke against Moab, condemning its pride and idolatry. Isaiah prophesied Moab's downfall, stating, "We have heard of Moab’s pride, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty" (<a href="/isaiah/16-6.htm">Isaiah 16:6</a>). Jeremiah also foretold Moab's destruction, emphasizing divine judgment due to their arrogance and false gods (Jeremiah 48).<br><br><b>Moab in the Monarchical Period:</b> <br>During the reign of King David, Moab was subdued and became a tributary state (<a href="/2_samuel/8-2.htm">2 Samuel 8:2</a>). However, Moab regained independence after Solomon's death. In the ninth century BC, King Mesha of Moab rebelled against Israelite control, an event recorded in both the Bible (2 Kings 3) and the Mesha Stele, an ancient Moabite inscription.<br><br><b>Cultural and Religious Practices:</b> <br>Moabite religion was centered around the worship of Chemosh, their chief deity. This idolatry was a source of conflict with Israel, as seen in Solomon's later years when he built high places for Chemosh (<a href="/1_kings/11-7.htm">1 Kings 11:7</a>). The Moabites' religious practices often included child sacrifice, which was abhorrent to the Israelites.<br><br><b>Archaeological Evidence:</b> <br>Archaeological findings, such as the Mesha Stele, provide insight into Moabite culture and their interactions with Israel. The stele corroborates biblical accounts of Moab's rebellion and highlights the Moabites' view of their deity's role in their victories.<br><br><b>Conclusion:</b> <br>Moab's legacy in the biblical narrative is one of both enmity and kinship with Israel. Despite their frequent opposition, the Moabites are integral to the account of Israel, illustrating themes of divine judgment, redemption, and the complexity of human relationships.<a name="hit" id="hit"></a><div class="vheading2">Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary</div><span class="encheading">Moab</span><p>of his father<a name="smi" id="smi"></a><div class="vheading2">Smith's Bible Dictionary</div><span class="encheading">Moab</span><p>(<i>of his father</i>)<i>, Moabites.</i> Moab was the son of the Lot's eldest daughter, the progenitor of the Moabites. Zoar was the cradle of the race of Lot. From this centre the brother tribes spread themselves. The Moabites first inhabited the rich highlands which crown the eastern side of the chasm of the Dead Sea, extending as far north as the mountain of Gilead, from which country they expelled the Emims, the original inhabitants, (<a href="/deuteronomy/2-11.htm">2:11</a>) but they themselves were afterward driven southward by the warlike Amorites, who had crossed the Jordan, and were confined to the country south of the river Arnon, which formed their northern boundary. (<a href="/numbers/21-13.htm">Numbers 21:13</a>; <a href="/judges/11-18.htm">Judges 11:18</a>) The territory occupied by Moab at the period of its greatest extent, before the invasion of the Amorites, divided itself naturally into three distinct and independent portions:-- (1) The enclosed corner or canton south of the Arnon was the "field of Moab." (<a href="/ruth/1-1.htm">Ruth 1:1,2,6</a>) etc. (2) The more open rolling country north of the Arnon, opposite Jericho, and up to the hills of Gilead, was the "land of Moab." (<a href="/deuteronomy/1-5.htm">1:5</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/32-49.htm">32:49</a>) etc. (3) The sunk district in the tropical depths of the Jordan valley. (<a href="/numbers/22-1.htm">Numbers 22:1</a>) etc. The Israelites, in entering the promised land, did not pass through the Moabites, (<a href="/judges/11-18.htm">Judges 11:18</a>) but conquered the Amorites, who occupied the country from which the Moabites had been so lately expelled. After the conquest of Canaan the relations of Moab with Israel were of a mixed character, sometimes warlike and sometimes peaceable. With the tribe of Benjamin they had at least one severe struggle, in union with their kindred the Ammonites. (<a href="/judges/3-12.htm">Judges 3:12-30</a>) The story of Ruth, on the other hand, testifies to the existence of a friendly intercourse between Moab and Bethlehem, one of the towns of Judah. By his descent from Ruth, David may be said to have had Moabite blood in his veins. He committed his parents to the protection of the king of Moab, when hard pressed by Saul. (<a href="/1_samuel/22-3.htm">1 Samuel 22:3,4</a>) But here all friendly relations stop forever. The next time the name is mentioned is in the account of David's war, who made the Moabites tributary. (<a href="/2_samuel/8-2.htm">2 Samuel 8:2</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/18-2.htm">1 Chronicles 18:2</a>) At the disruption of the kingdom Moab seems to have fallen to the northern realm. At the death of Ahab the Moabites refused to pay tribute and asserted their independence, making war upon the kingdom of Judah. (<a href="/2_chronicles/22-1.htm">2 Chronicles 22:1</a>) ... As a natural consequence of the late events, Israel, Judah and Edom united in an attack on Moab, resulting in the complete overthrow of the Moabites. Falling back into their own country, they were followed and their cities and farms destroyed. Finally, shut up within the walls of his own capital, the king, Mesha, in the sight of the thousands who covered the sides of that vast amphitheater, killed and burnt his child as a propitiatory sacrifice to the cruel gods of his country. Isaiah, chs. (<a href="/isaiah/15-1.htm">Isaiah 15,16,25:10-12</a>) predicts the utter annihilation of the Moabites; and they are frequently denounced by the subsequent prophets. For the religion of the Moabites see <a href="../c/chemosh.htm">CHEMOSH</a>; <a href="../m/molech.htm">MOLECH</a>; <a href="../p/peor.htm">PEOR</a>. See also Tristram's "Land of Moab." <i>Present condition.</i> --(Noldeke says that the extinction of the Moabites was about A.D. 200, at the time when the Yemen tribes Galib and Gassara entered the eastern districts of the Jordan. Since A.D. 536 the last trace of the name Moab, which lingered in the town of Kir-moab, has given place to <i>Kerak</i> , its modern name. Over the whole region are scattered many ruins of ancient cities; and while the country is almost bare of larger vegetation, it is still a rich pasture-ground, with occasional fields of grain. The land thus gives evidence of its former wealth and power. --ED.)<a name="eas" id="eas"></a><div class="vheading2">Easton's Bible Dictionary</div>The seed of the father, or, according to others, the desirable land, the eldest son of Lot (<a href="/genesis/19-37.htm">Genesis 19:37</a>), of incestuous birth.<p>(2.) Used to denote the people of Moab (<a href="/numbers/22-3.htm">Numbers 22:3</a>-14; <a href="/judges/3-30.htm">Judges 3:30</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/8-2.htm">2 Samuel 8:2</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/48-11.htm">Jeremiah 48:11</a>, 13).<p>(3.) The land of Moab (<a href="/jeremiah/48-24.htm">Jeremiah 48:24</a>), called also the "country of Moab" (<a href="/ruth/1-2.htm">Ruth 1:2</a>, 6; <a href="/ruth/2-6.htm">2:6</a>), on the east of Jordan and the Dead Sea, and south of the Arnon (<a href="/numbers/21-13.htm">Numbers 21:13</a>, 26). In a wider sense it included the whole region that had been occupied by the Amorites. It bears the modern name of Kerak.<p>In the Plains of Moab, opposite Jericho (<a href="/numbers/22-1.htm">Numbers 22:1</a>; <a href="/numbers/26-63.htm">26:63</a>; <a href="/joshua/13-32.htm">Joshua 13:32</a>), the children of Israel had their last encampment before they entered the land of Canaan. It was at that time in the possession of the Amorites (<a href="/numbers/21-22.htm">Numbers 21:22</a>). "Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah," and "died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord" (<a href="/deuteronomy/34-5.htm">Deuteronomy 34:5</a>, 6). "Surely if we had nothing else to interest us in the land of Moab, the fact that it was from the top of Pisgah, its noblest height, this mightiest of the prophets looked out with eye undimmed upon the Promised Land; that it was here on Nebo, its loftiest mountain, that he died his solitary death; that it was here, in the valley over against Beth-peor, he found his mysterious sepulchre, we have enough to enshrine the memory in our hearts." <a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div><span class="encheading">AR, AR OF MOAB</span><p>ar, mo'-ab (`ar, `ar-mo'abh; Er; Aroer or See ir): The city of Ar is named in a snatch of ancient song (<a href="/numbers/21-15.htm">Numbers 21:15</a>), literally "the site of Ar." It is identical with "Ar of Moab" (<a href="/numbers/21-28.htm">Numbers 21:28</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-1.htm">Isaiah 15:1</a>). This is probably the place called the City of Moab in <a href="/numbers/22-36.htm">Numbers 22:36</a>, where the Hebrew is `ir mo'abh. It is probably also intended by "the city that is in the middle of the valley" (<a href="/deuteronomy/2-36.htm">Deuteronomy 2:36</a> <a href="/joshua/13-9.htm">Joshua 13:9, 16</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-5.htm">2 Samuel 24:5</a>). It lay "on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border" (<a href="/numbers/22-36.htm">Numbers 22:36</a>). A possible identification might be the ruin noted by Burckhardt, in the floor of the valley, on a piece of pasture-land below the confluence of the Lejjun and the Mojib. Buhl however thinks that not a city but a Moabite district somewhere in the region south of the Arnon may be intended (GAP, 269).<br><br>W. Ewing<p><span class="encheading">KIR OF MOAB</span><p>(qir moa'-abh; Septuagint has to teichos, "the wall," "fortress"):<br><br>1. Identification:<br><br>The name, at least in this form, appears only once (<a href="/isaiah/15-1.htm">Isaiah 15:1</a>) as that of a city in Moab. It is named with Ar of Moab, with which possibly it may be identical, since `ar or `ir is the Hebrew equivalent of the Moabite Qir. The Targum hence reads "Kerak in Moab." There can be no doubt that the Kerak here intended is represented by the modern town of that name, with which, consequently, Kir Moab is almost universally identified. It must always have been a place of importance. It is mentioned as Charakmoba (Karakmoba) in the Acts of the Council of Jerusalem (536 A.D.) and by the early geographers. It dominated the great caravan road connecting Syria with Egypt and Arabia. The Crusaders therefore directed attention to it, and held possession from 1167 till it fell again into the hands of the Moslems under Saladin, 1188. The Chroniclers speak of it as in el Belqa, and the chief city of Arabia Secunda. Under the title of Petra Deserti the Crusaders founded here a bishop's see. The Greek bishop of Petra still has his seat in Kerak.<br><br>2. Discription:<br><br>Kerak stands upon a lofty spur projecting westward from the Moab plateau, with Wady `Ain Franjy on the South, and Wady el-Kerak on the North, about 10 miles from the Dead Sea. The sides of the mountain sink sharply into these deep ravines, which unite immediately to the West, and, as Wady el-Kerak, the great hollow runs northwestward to the sea. It is a position of great natural strength, being connected with the uplands to the East only by a narrow neck. It is 3,370 ft. above the level of the sea. The mountains beyond the adjacent valleys are much higher. The place was surrounded by a strong wall, with five towers, which can still be traced in its whole length. The most northerly tower is well preserved. The most interesting building at Kerak is the huge castle on the southern side. It is separated from the adjoining hill on the right by a large artificial moat; and it is provided with a reservoir. A moat also skirts the northern side of the fortress, and on the East the wall has a sloped or battered base. The castle is then separated from the town. The walls are very thick, and are well preserved. Beneath the castle is a chapel in which traces of frescoes are still visible. In days of ancient warfare the place must have been practically impregnable. It could be entered only by two roads passing through rock-cut tunnels. The main danger must always have been failure of water supply. There are springs immediately outside the city; but those alone would not be sufficient. Great cisterns were therefore constructed in the town and also in the castle. The half-nomadic inhabitants of Kerak today number some 1,140 families (Musil, Arabia Petrea, III, 97). The Greek church claims about 2,000 souls; the rest are Moslems. They are wild and fearless people, not greatly inclined to treat strangers with courtesy and kindness. In the spring of 1911 the town was the center of a rising against the government, which was not quelled until much blood had been shed.<br><br>W. Ewing<p><span class="encheading">MOAB; MOABITES</span><p>mo'-ab, mo'-ab-its (Moab, mo'abh, Moabite Stone, M-'-B; Greek (Septuagint) Moab, he Moabeitis, Moabitis; Moabite, mo'abhi; Moabites, bene mo'abh):<br><br>1. The Land:<br><br>Moab was the district East of the Dead Sea, extending from a point some distance North of it to its southern end. The eastern boundary was indefinite, being the border of the desert which is irregular. The length of the territory was about 50 miles and the average width about 30. It is a high tableland, averaging some 3,000 ft. above the level of the Mediterranean and 4,300 ft. above that of the Dead Sea. The aspect of the land, as one looks at it from the western side of the Dead Sea, is that of a range of mountains with a very precipitous frontage, but the elevation of this ridge above the interior is very slight. Deep chasms lead down from the tableland to the Dead Sea shore, the principal one being the gorge of the river Arnon, which is about 1,700 ft. deep and 2 or more miles in width at the level of the tableland, but very narrow at the bottom and with exceedingly precipitous banks. About 13 miles back from the mouth of the river the gorge divides, and farther back it subdivides, so that several valleys are formed of diminishing depth as they approach the desert border. These are referred to in <a href="/numbers/21-14.htm">Numbers 21:14</a> as the "valleys of the Arnon." The "valley of Zered" (<a href="/numbers/21-12.htm">Numbers 21:12</a>), which was on the southern border, drops down to the southern end of the Dead Sea, and although not so long or deep as the Arnon, is of the same nature in its lower reaches, very difficult to cross, dividing into two branches, but at a point much nearer the sea. The stream is not so large as the Arnon, but is quite copious, even in summer. These gorges have such precipitous sides that it would be very difficult for an army to cross them, except in their upper courses near the desert where they become shallow. The Israelites passed them in that region, probably along the present Hajj road and the line of the Mecca Railway. The tableland is fertile but lacks water. The fountains and streams in the valleys and on the slopes toward the Dead Sea are abundant, but the uplands are almost destitute of flowing water. The inhabitants supply themselves by means of cisterns, many of which are ancient, but many of those used in ancient times are ruined. The population must have been far greater formerly than now. The rainfall is usually sufficient to mature the crops, although the rain falls in winter only. The fertility of the country in ancient times is indicated by the numerous towns and villages known to have existed there, mentioned in Scripture and on the Moabite Stone, the latter giving some not found elsewhere. The principal of these were: Ar (<a href="/numbers/21-15.htm">Numbers 21:15</a>); Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Nebo (<a href="/numbers/32-3.htm">Numbers 32:3</a>); Beth-peor (<a href="/deuteronomy/3-29.htm">Deuteronomy 3:29</a>); Beth-diblaim, Bozrah, Kerioth (<a href="/jeremiah/48-22.htm">Jeremiah 48:22-24</a>); Kir (<a href="/isaiah/15-1.htm">Isaiah 15:1</a>); Medeba, Elealeh, Zoar (<a href="/isaiah/15-2.htm">Isaiah 15:2, 4, 5</a>); Kirheres (<a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Isaiah 16:11</a>); Sibmah (<a href="/joshua/13-19.htm">Joshua 13:19</a>); in all, some 45 place-names in Moab are known, most of the towns being in ruins. Kir of Moab is represented in the modern Kerak, the most important of all and the government center of the district. Madeba now represents the ancient Medeba, and has become noted for the discovery of a medieval map of Palestine, in mosaic, of considerable archaeological value. Rabbath-moab and Heshbon (modern Rabba and Hesban) are miserable villages, and the country is subject to the raids of the Bedouin tribes of the neighboring desert, which discourages agriculture. But the land is still good pasture ground for cattle and sheep, as in ancient times (<a href="/numbers/32-3.htm">Numbers 32:3, 4</a>).<br><br>2. The People:<br><br>The Moabites were of Semitic stock and of kin to the Hebrews, as is indicated by their descent from Lot, the nephew of Abraham (<a href="/genesis/19-30.htm">Genesis 19:30-37</a>), and by their language which is practically the same as the Hebrew. This is clear from the inscription on the Moabite Stone, a monument of Mesha, king of Moab, erected about 850 B.C., and discovered among the ruins of Dibon in 1868. It contains 34 lines of about 9 words each, written in the old Phoenician and Hebrew characters, corresponding to the Siloam inscription and those found in Phoenicia, showing that it is a dialect of the Semitic tongue prevailing in Palestine. The original inhabitants of Moab were the Emim (<a href="/deuteronomy/2-10.htm">Deuteronomy 2:10</a>), "a people great.... and tall, as the Anakim." When these were deposed by the Moabites we do not know. The latter are not mentioned in the Tell el-Amarna Letters and do not appear on the Egyptian monuments before the 14th century B.C., when they seem to be referred to under the name of Ruten, or Luten or Lotan, i.e. Lot (Paton, Syria and Pal); Muab appears in a list of names on a monument of Rameses III of the XXth Dynasty. The country lay outside the line of march of the Egyptian armies, and this accounts for the silence of its monuments in regard to them.<br><br>3. Religion:<br><br>The chief deity of Moab was Chemosh (kemosh), frequently mentioned in the Old Testament and on the Moabite Stone, where King Mesha speaks of building a high place in his honor because he was saved by him from his enemies. He represents the oppression of Moab by Omri as the result of the anger of Chemosh, and Mesha made war against Israel by command of Chemosh. He was the national god of Moab, as Molech was of Ammon, and it is pretty certain that he was propitiated by human sacrifices (<a href="/2_kings/3-27.htm">2 Kings 3:27</a>). But he was not the only god of Moab, as is clear from the account in <a href="/nasb/numbers/25.htm">Numbers 25</a>, where it is also clear that their idolatrous worship was corrupt. They had their Baalim like the nations around, as may be inferred from the place-names compounded with Baal, such as Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon and Baal-peor.<br><br>4. History:<br><br>We know scarcely anything of the history of the Moabites after the account of their origin in <a href="/nasb/genesis/19.htm">Genesis 19</a> until the time of the exodus. It would seem, however, that they had suffered from the invasions of the Amorites, who, under their king Sihon, had subdued the northern part of Moab as far as the Arnon (<a href="/numbers/21-21.htm">Numbers 21:21-31</a>). This conquest was no doubt a result of the movement of the Amorites southward, when they were pressed by the great wave of Hittite invasion that overran Northern Syria at the end of the 15th and the early part of the 14th centuries B.C. The Amorites were forced to seek homes in Palestine, and it would seem that a portion of them crossed the Jordan and occupied Northern Moab, and here the Israelites found them as they approached the Promised Land. They did not at first disturb the Moabites in the South, but passed around on the eastern border (<a href="/deuteronomy/2-8.htm">Deuteronomy 2:8, 9</a>) and came into conflict with the Amorites in the North (<a href="/numbers/21-21.htm">Numbers 21:21-26</a>), defeating them and occupying the territory (<a href="/numbers/21-31.htm">Numbers 21:31-32</a>). But when Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, saw what a powerful people was settling on his border, he made alliance with the Midianites against them and called in the aid of Balaam, but as he could not induce the latter to curse them he refrained from attacking the Israelites (<a href="/nasb/numbers/22.htm">Numbers 22</a>; <a href="/nasb/numbers/24.htm">Numbers 24</a>). The latter, however, suffered disaster from the people of Moab through their intercourse with them (<a href="/nasb/numbers/25.htm">Numbers 25</a>). Some time before the establishment of the kingdom in Israel the Midianites overran Moab, as would appear from the passage in <a href="/genesis/36-35.htm">Genesis 36:35</a>, but the conquest was not permanent, for Moab recovered its lost territory and became strong enough to encroach upon Israel across the Jordan. Eglon of Moab oppressed Israel with the aid of Ammon and Amalek (<a href="/judges/3-13.htm">Judges 3:13-14</a>), but Eglon was assassinated by Ehud, and the Moabite yoke was cast off after 18 years. Saul smote Moab, but did not subdue it (<a href="/1_samuel/14-47.htm">1 Samuel 14:47</a>), for we find David putting his father and mother under the protection of the king of Moab when persecuted by Saul (<a href="/1_samuel/22-3.htm">1 Samuel 22:3, 4</a>). But this friendship between David and Moab did not continue. When David became king he made war upon Moab and completely subjugated it (<a href="/2_samuel/8-2.htm">2 Samuel 8:2</a>). On the division of the kingdom between Rehoboam and Jeroboam the latter probably obtained possession of Moab (<a href="/1_kings/12-20.htm">1 Kings 12:20</a>), but it revolted and Omri had to reconquer it (M S), and it was tributary to Ahab (<a href="/2_kings/1-1.htm">2 Kings 1:1</a>). It revolted again in the reign of Ahaziah (<a href="/2_kings/1-1.htm">2 Kings 1:1</a>; <a href="/2_kings/3-5.htm">2 Kings 3:5</a>), and Moab and Ammon made war on Jehoshaphat and Mt. Seir and destroyed the latter, but they afterward fell out among themselves and destroyed each other (<a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/20.htm">2 Chronicles 20</a>). Jehoshaphat and Jehoram together made an expedition into Moab and defeated the Moabites with great slaughter (<a href="/nasb/2_kings/3.htm">2 Kings 3</a>). But Mesha, king of Moab, was not subdued (<a href="/2_kings/3-27.htm">2 Kings 3:27</a>), and afterward completely freed his land from the dominion of Israel (M S). This was probably at the time when Israel and Judah were at war with Hazael of Damascus (<a href="/2_kings/8-28.htm">2 Kings 8:28, 29</a>). Bands of Moabites ventured to raid the land of Israel when weakened by the conflict with Hazael (<a href="/2_kings/13-20.htm">2 Kings 13:20</a>), but Moab was probably subdued again by Jeroboam II (<a href="/2_kings/14-25.htm">2 Kings 14:25</a>), which may be the disaster to Moab recounted in <a href="/nasb/isaiah/15.htm">Isaiah 15</a>. After Mesha we find a king of the name of Salamanu and another called Chemosh-nadab, the latter being subject to Sargon of Assyria. He revolted against Sennacherib, in alliance with other kings of Syria and Palestine and Egypt, but was subdued by him, and another king, Mutsuri, was subject to Esarhaddon. These items come to us from the Assyrian monuments. When Babylon took the place of Assyria in the suzerainty, Moab joined other tribes in urging Judah to revolt but seems to have come to terms with Nebuchadnezzar before Jerusalem was taken, as we hear nothing of any expedition of that king against her. On the war described in Judith, in which Moab (1:12, etc.) plays a part.<br><br>See<a href="http://bibleencyclopedia.com/judith.htm">JUDITH</a>.<br><br>At a later date Moab was overrun by the Nabathean Arabs who ruled in Petra and extended their authority on the east side of Jordan even as far as Damascus (Josephus, Ant, XIII, xv, 1, 2). The Moabites lost their identity as a nation and were afterward confounded with the Arabs, as we see in the statement of Josephus (XIII, xiii, 5), where he says that Alexander (Janneus) overcame the Arabians, such as the Moabites and the Gileadites. Alexander built the famous stronghold of Macherus in Moab, on a hill overlooking the Dead Sea, which afterward became the scene of the imprisonment and tragical death of John the Baptist (Josephus, BJ, VII, vi, 2; Ant, XVIII, v, 2; <a href="/mark/6-21.htm">Mark 6:21-28</a>). It was afterward destroyed by the Romans. Kir became a fortress of the Crusaders under the name of Krak (Kerak), which held out against the Moslems until the time of Saladin, who captured it in 1188 A.D.<br><br>LITERATURE.<br><br>Commentaries on the passages in the Old Testament relating to Moab, and histories of Israel; Paton, Early History of Syria and Palestine; Rawlinson, Ancient Monarchies, especially Assyria and Babylonia; Conder, Heth and Moab; G. A. Smith, HGHL; the Moabite Stone; Josephus.<br><br>H. Porter<p><span class="encheading">PHAATH MOAB</span><p>fa'-ath, mo'-ab (Codex Alexandrinus Phaath Moab; Codex Vaticanus followed by Swete, Phthaleimoab (1 Esdras 5:11); 1 Esdras 8:31 (the King James Version "Pahath Moab"), Codex Vaticanus followed by Swete reads Maathmoab; Fritzsche in both places reads Phaath Moab): One of the families, part of which, consisting "of the sons of Jesus and Joab 2,812," went up out of captivity with Zerubbabel and Joshua (1 Esdras 5:11), and part of which, namely, "Eliaonias the son of Zaraias and with him 200 men," went up with Ezra (1 Esdras 8:31 equals "Pahath-moab" of <a href="/ezra/2-6.htm">Ezra 2:6</a>; <a href="/ezra/8-4.htm">Ezra 8:4</a>; (10:30); and <a href="/nehemiah/7-11.htm">Nehemiah 7:11</a> (3:11; 10:14)). As the name of a Jewish clan or family the name Phaath or Pahath Moab presents difficulties of which explanations are offered, though none is convincing. It is generally taken as "ruler of Moab," which may refer to the Israelite conquest of Moab in which this family may have distinguished itself, or it may have arisen from the settlement and incorporation of a Moabite family in Hebrew territory, or from the settlement of an Israelite family in Moabite territory (compare <a href="/1_chronicles/4-22.htm">1 Chronicles 4:22</a>); or it may be the corruption of some unknown word or name. Instances of such corruption are quite common in these apocryphal Hebrew proper names.<br><br>See <a href="../p/pahath-moab.htm">PAHATH-MOAB</a>.<br><br>S. Angus<p><span class="encheading">PLAIN OF MOAB</span><p>In <a href="/deuteronomy/1-1.htm">Deuteronomy 1:1</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/2-8.htm">Deuteronomy 2:8</a>, "plain" is translated in the Revised Version (British and American) "Arabah," and explained, "the deep valley running North and South of the Dead Sea." It was here that Moses delivered his last addresses. Ususally the word is plural (`arebhoth), the "plains" or steppes of Moab (<a href="/numbers/22-1.htm">Numbers 22:1</a>, etc.; <a href="/deuteronomy/34-1.htm">Deuteronomy 34:1, 8</a>). An interesting description is given in an article on "The Steppes of Moab" by Professor G. B. Gray in The Expositor, January, 1905.<br><br>See <a href="../m/moab.htm">MOAB</a>.<p><a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/904.htm"><span class="l">904. Balak -- Balak, a king of the Moabites</span></a> <br><b>...</b> of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Transliteration: Balak Phonetic Spelling:<br> (bal-ak') Short Definition: Balak Definition: Balak, son of Zippor, King of <b>Moab</b> <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/904.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/6355.htm"><span class="l">6355. Pachath <b>Moab</b> -- a postexilic name</span></a><br>Pachath <b>Moab</b>. 6354, 6355. Pachath <b>Moab</b>. 6356 . a postexilic name.<br> Transliteration: Pachath <b>Moab</b> Phonetic Spelling: (pakh'-ath <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/6355.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4124.htm"><span class="l">4124. <b>Moab</b> -- a son of Lot,also his desc. and the territory where <b>...</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 4123, 4124. <b>Moab</b>. 4125 . <b>...</b> and the territory where they settled. Transliteration:<br> <b>Moab</b> Phonetic Spelling: (mo-awb) Short Definition: <b>Moab</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4124.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4125.htm"><span class="l">4125. Moabi -- descendant of <b>Moab</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> descendant of <b>Moab</b>. Transliteration: Moabi or Moabiyyah Phonetic Spelling:<br> (mo-aw-bee') Short Definition: Moabite. Word Origin from <b>Moab</b> Definition desc. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4125.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5963.htm"><span class="l">5963. Almon Diblathayemah -- a place in <b>Moab</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> a place in <b>Moab</b>. Transliteration: Almon Diblathayemah Phonetic Spelling:<br> (al-mone' dib-law-thaw'-yem-aw) Short Definition: Almon-diblathaim. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5963.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5015a.htm"><span class="l">5015a. Nebo -- a city in <b>Moab</b>, also a mountain in <b>Moab</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 5015, 5015a. Nebo. 5015b . a city in <b>Moab</b>, also a mountain in <b>Moab</b>.<br> Transliteration: Nebo Short Definition: Nebo. Word Origin from <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5015a.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/6144.htm"><span class="l">6144. Ar -- a place in <b>Moab</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 6143, 6144. Ar. 6145 . a place in <b>Moab</b>. Transliteration: Ar Phonetic Spelling:<br> (awr) Short Definition: Ar. Word <b>...</b> Ar, a place in <b>Moab</b>. The <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/6144.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2773.htm"><span class="l">2773. Choronayim -- "two hollows," a place in <b>Moab</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 2772, 2773. Choronayim. 2774 . "two hollows," a place in <b>Moab</b>. Transliteration:<br> Choronayim Phonetic Spelling: (kho-ro-nah'-yim) Short Definition: Horonaim. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2773.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5302.htm"><span class="l">5302. Nophach -- a city of <b>Moab</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> a city of <b>Moab</b>. Transliteration: Nophach Phonetic Spelling: (no'-fakh) Short Definition:<br> Nophah. <b>...</b> Nophah. From naphach; a gust; Nophach, a place in <b>Moab</b> -- Nophah <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5302.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7643.htm"><span class="l">7643. Sebam -- a place in <b>Moab</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 7642b, 7643. Sebam. 7644 . a place in <b>Moab</b>. Transliteration: Sebam Phonetic<br> Spelling: (seb-awm') Short Definition: Sibmah. Word <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7643.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7025.htm"><span class="l">7025. Qir Cheres -- "wall of earthenware," a fortified city in <b>...</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> "wall of earthenware," a fortified city in <b>Moab</b>. Transliteration: Qir Cheres or<br> Qir Chareseth Phonetic Spelling: (keer kheh'-res) Short Definition: Kir-hareseth <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7025.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_17_1871/moab_is_my_washpot.htm"><span class="l"><b>Moab</b> is My Washpot</span></a> <br><b>...</b> <b>Moab</b> Is My Washpot. A Sermon (No.983). by. CH SPURGEON,. At the Metropolitan<br> Tabernacle, Newington. "<b>Moab</b> is my washpot.""Psalm 60:8. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/moab is my washpot.htm</font><p><a href="/library/josephus/the_antiquities_of_the_jews/chapter_3_how_joram_and.htm"><span class="l">How Joram and Jehoshaphat Made an Expedition against the Moabites <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> 1. When Joram had taken upon him the kingdom, he determined to make an expedition<br> against the king of <b>Moab</b>, whose name was Mesha; for, as we told you before <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 3 how joram and.htm</font><p><a href="/library/tidwell/the_bible_period_by_period/chapter_vii_from_kadesh_to.htm"><span class="l">From Kadesh to the Death of Moses.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> They also passed the country of <b>Moab</b> and came finally to the river Arnan<br> (Num.21:13), which is the boundary between <b>Moab</b> and the Amorites. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../tidwell/the bible period by period/chapter vii from kadesh to.htm</font><p><a href="/library/marshall/the_wonder_book_of_bible_stories/the_story_of_ruth_the.htm"><span class="l">The Story of Ruth, the Gleaner</span></a> <br><b>...</b> For some years the crops were poor, and food was scarce in Judah; and Elimelech<br> with his family went to live in the land of <b>Moab</b>, which was on the east of the <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../marshall/the wonder book of bible stories/the story of ruth the.htm</font><p><a href="/library/sherman/the_childrens_bible/the_last_words_of_moses.htm"><span class="l">The Last Words of Moses</span></a> <br><b>...</b> nor be frightened.". Then Moses went up on the plains of <b>Moab</b> to Mount<br> Nebo to the summit of Pisgah opposite Jericho. And Jehovah <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/...//christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/the last words of moses.htm</font><p><a href="/library/various/select_masterpieces_of_biblical_literature/ii_the_witness_of_balaam.htm"><span class="l">The Witness of Balaam to Israel</span></a> <br><b>...</b> And <b>Moab</b> was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and <b>Moab</b><br> was distressed because of the children of Israel. And <b>Moab</b> <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../various/select masterpieces of biblical literature/ii the witness of balaam.htm</font><p><a href="/library/gerberding/the_way_of_salvation_in_the_lutheran_church/chapter_iv_numbers.htm"><span class="l">Numbers.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Chapter IV. Numbers. Name. It is named from the two enumerations of the people,<br> at Sinai, Ch.1. and at <b>Moab</b>, Ch.26. <b>...</b> II. The Journey to <b>Moab</b>, 10:11-22:1. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../gerberding/the way of salvation in the lutheran church/chapter iv numbers.htm</font><p><a href="/library/butler/human_nature/sermon_vii_upon_the_character.htm"><span class="l">Upon the Character of Balaam. Preached the Second Sunday after <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> The occasion of Balaam's coming out of his own country into the land of <b>Moab</b>, where<br> he pronounced this solemn prayer or wish, he himself relates in the first <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/butler/human nature/sermon vii upon the character.htm</font><p><a href="/library/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/scriptural_poems_being_several_portions.htm"><span class="l">Scriptural Poems; Being Several Portions of Scripture Digested <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> kingly power, when judges bore the sway: A certain man of Bethlehem Juda fled, By<br> reason of a famine that o'erspread The land, into the land of <b>Moab</b>, where He <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../scriptural poems being several portions.htm</font><p><a href="/library/steedman/the_babe_in_the_bulrushes/ruth_the_gleaner.htm"><span class="l">Ruth, the Gleaner</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Along the hot, dusty road that led from the country of <b>Moab</b> to the fair land of<br> Judah three women were walking with bowed heads and weary, halting steps. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/...//christianbookshelf.org/steedman/the babe in the bulrushes/ruth the gleaner.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/m/moab.htm"><span class="l"><b>Moab</b> (162 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> birth. (2.) Used to denote the people of <b>Moab</b> (Numbers 22:3-14; Judges<br> 3:30; 2 Samuel 8:2; Jeremiah 48:11, 13). (3.) The land of <b>Moab</b><b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/m/moab.htm - 62k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/pahath-moab.htm"><span class="l">Pahath-<b>moab</b> (6 Occurrences)</span></a><br>Pahath-<b>moab</b>. Pahathmoab, Pahath-<b>moab</b>. Pa'hath-<b>moab</b> . Easton's Bible Dictionary<br> Governor of <b>Moab</b>, a person whose descendants returned <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/pahath-moab.htm - 9k</font><p><a href="/topical/m/moab's.htm"><span class="l"><b>Moab's</b> (7 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Multi-Version Concordance <b>Moab's</b> (7 Occurrences). Numbers 23:7 And he took<br> up his parable, and said: From Aram Balak bringeth me, the <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/m/moab's.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/i/ir-moab.htm"><span class="l">Ir-<b>moab</b> (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br>Ir-<b>moab</b>. Irksome, Ir-<b>moab</b>. Irnahash . Multi-Version Concordance<br> Ir-<b>moab</b> (1 Occurrence). Numbers 22:36 And when Balak <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/i/ir-moab.htm - 6k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/pa'hath-moab.htm"><span class="l">Pa'hath-<b>moab</b> (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br>Pa'hath-<b>moab</b>. Pahath-<b>moab</b>, Pa'hath-<b>moab</b>. Pa'hath-mo'ab .<br> Multi-Version Concordance Pa'hath-<b>moab</b> (1 Occurrence). Ezra <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/pa'hath-moab.htm - 6k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/plains.htm"><span class="l">Plains (31 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Numbers 22:1 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of <b>Moab</b><br> beyond the Jordan at Jericho. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/plains.htm - 16k</font><p><a href="/topical/a/ar.htm"><span class="l">Ar (7 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Noah Webster's Dictionary (conj.) Ere; before. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia.<br> AR, AR OF <b>MOAB</b>. ar, mo'-ab (`ar, `ar-mo'abh; Er; Aroer <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/a/ar.htm - 9k</font><p><a href="/topical/k/kir-heres.htm"><span class="l">Kir-heres (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Jeremiah 48:31, 36; in Isaiah 16:11 the King James Version reads Kir-haresh (pausal<br> form)): Modern scholars unanimously identify this city with Kir of <b>Moab</b>. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/k/kir-heres.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/k/kirheres.htm"><span class="l">Kirheres (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Jeremiah 48:31, 36; in Isaiah 16:11 the King James Version reads Kir-haresh (pausal<br> form)): Modern scholars unanimously identify this city with Kir of <b>Moab</b>. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/k/kirheres.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/phaath.htm"><span class="l">Phaath</span></a><br><b>...</b> Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia PHAATH <b>MOAB</b>. fa'-ath, mo'-ab (Codex Alexandrinus<br> Phaath <b>Moab</b>; Codex Vaticanus followed by Swete, Phthaleimoab <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/phaath.htm - 7k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Moab-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Moab in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Moab-Ammon.html">When did Moab and Ammon eventually worship the Lord (Zephaniah 2:11)? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Moabites.html">Who were the Moabites? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Moab (162 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/19-37.htm">Genesis 19:37</a></span><br />The firstborn bore a son, and named him <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/36-35.htm">Genesis 36:35</a></span><br />Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/15-15.htm">Exodus 15:15</a></span><br />Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/21-11.htm">Numbers 21:11</a></span><br />They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, toward the sunrise.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/21-13.htm">Numbers 21:13</a></span><br />From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, between Moab and the Amorites.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/21-15.htm">Numbers 21:15</a></span><br />the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/21-20.htm">Numbers 21:20</a></span><br />and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/21-26.htm">Numbers 21:26</a></span><br />For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/21-28.htm">Numbers 21:28</a></span><br />for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/21-29.htm">Numbers 21:29</a></span><br />Woe to you, <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/22-1.htm">Numbers 22:1</a></span><br />The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> beyond the Jordan at Jericho.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/22-3.htm">Numbers 22:3</a></span><br /><span class="boldtext">Moab</span> was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/22-4.htm">Numbers 22:4</a></span><br /><span class="boldtext">Moab</span> said to the elders of Midian, "Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/22-7.htm">Numbers 22:7</a></span><br />The elders of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/22-8.htm">Numbers 22:8</a></span><br />He said to them, "Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me." The princes of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> stayed with Balaam.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/22-10.htm">Numbers 22:10</a></span><br />Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, has sent to me, saying,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/22-14.htm">Numbers 22:14</a></span><br />The princes of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/22-21.htm">Numbers 22:21</a></span><br />Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/22-36.htm">Numbers 22:36</a></span><br />When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/23-6.htm">Numbers 23:6</a></span><br />He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/23-7.htm">Numbers 23:7</a></span><br />He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/23-17.htm">Numbers 23:17</a></span><br />He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> with him. Balak said to him, "What has Yahweh spoken?"<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/24-17.htm">Numbers 24:17</a></span><br />I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and break down all the sons of Sheth.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/25-1.htm">Numbers 25:1</a></span><br />Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>: <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/25-3.htm">Numbers 25:3</a></span><br />So Israel had relations with the women of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel. <br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/25-5.htm">Numbers 25:5</a></span><br />So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> in honour of the Baal of Peor.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/26-3.htm">Numbers 26:3</a></span><br />Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/26-63.htm">Numbers 26:63</a></span><br />These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> by the Jordan at Jericho.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/31-12.htm">Numbers 31:12</a></span><br />They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/33-44.htm">Numbers 33:44</a></span><br />They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/33-48.htm">Numbers 33:48</a></span><br />They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> by the Jordan at Jericho.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/33-49.htm">Numbers 33:49</a></span><br />They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/33-50.htm">Numbers 33:50</a></span><br />Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/35-1.htm">Numbers 35:1</a></span><br />Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/36-13.htm">Numbers 36:13</a></span><br />These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> by the Jordan at Jericho. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-5.htm">Deuteronomy 1:5</a></span><br />Beyond the Jordan, in the land of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, began Moses to declare this law, saying,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-8.htm">Deuteronomy 2:8</a></span><br />So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-9.htm">Deuteronomy 2:9</a></span><br />Yahweh said to me, "Don't bother <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-18.htm">Deuteronomy 2:18</a></span><br />"You are this day to pass over Ar, the border of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>:<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-1.htm">Deuteronomy 29:1</a></span><br />These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/32-49.htm">Deuteronomy 32:49</a></span><br />"Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/34-1.htm">Deuteronomy 34:1</a></span><br />Moses went up from the plains of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/34-5.htm">Deuteronomy 34:5</a></span><br />So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, according to the word of Yahweh.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/34-6.htm">Deuteronomy 34:6</a></span><br />He buried him in the valley in the land of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> over against Beth Peor: but no man knows of his tomb to this day. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/34-8.htm">Deuteronomy 34:8</a></span><br />The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/joshua/13-32.htm">Joshua 13:32</a></span><br />These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/joshua/24-9.htm">Joshua 24:9</a></span><br />Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/3-12.htm">Judges 3:12</a></span><br />The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/3-14.htm">Judges 3:14</a></span><br />The children of Israel served Eglon the king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> eighteen years. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/3-15.htm">Judges 3:15</a></span><br />But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/3-17.htm">Judges 3:17</a></span><br />He offered the tribute to Eglon king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>: now Eglon was a very fat man. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/3-28.htm">Judges 3:28</a></span><br />He said to them, "Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand." They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn't allow any man to pass over.<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/3-29.htm">Judges 3:29</a></span><br />They struck of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> at that time about ten thousand men, every lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped not a man.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/3-30.htm">Judges 3:30</a></span><br />So <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. The land had rest eighty years. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/10-6.htm">Judges 10:6</a></span><br />The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook Yahweh, and didn't serve him.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/11-15.htm">Judges 11:15</a></span><br />and he said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn't take away the land of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, nor the land of the children of Ammon,<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/11-17.htm">Judges 11:17</a></span><br />then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying,'Please let me pass through your land;' but the king of Edom didn't listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>; but he would not: and Israel abode in Kadesh.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/11-18.htm">Judges 11:18</a></span><br />Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn't come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/11-25.htm">Judges 11:25</a></span><br />Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ruth/1-1.htm">Ruth 1:1</a></span><br />It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to sojourn in the country of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, he, and his wife, and his two sons.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ruth/1-2.htm">Ruth 1:2</a></span><br />The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and continued there.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ruth/1-4.htm">Ruth 1:4</a></span><br />They took them wives of the women of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they lived there about ten years.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ruth/1-6.htm">Ruth 1:6</a></span><br />Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ruth/1-22.htm">Ruth 1:22</a></span><br />So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ruth/2-6.htm">Ruth 2:6</a></span><br />The servant who was set over the reapers answered, "It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ruth/4-3.htm">Ruth 4:3</a></span><br />He said to the near kinsman, "Naomi, who has come back out of the country of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/12-9.htm">1 Samuel 12:9</a></span><br />"But they forgot Yahweh their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>; and they fought against them.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/14-47.htm">1 Samuel 14:47</a></span><br />Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and wherever he turned himself, he put them to the worse.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/22-3.htm">1 Samuel 22:3</a></span><br />David went there to Mizpeh of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/22-4.htm">1 Samuel 22:4</a></span><br />He brought them before the king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>; and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_samuel/8-2.htm">2 Samuel 8:2</a></span><br />He struck <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_samuel/8-12.htm">2 Samuel 8:12</a></span><br />of Syria, and of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-20.htm">2 Samuel 23:20</a></span><br />Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons of Ariel of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_kings/11-1.htm">1 Kings 11:1</a></span><br />Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_kings/11-7.htm">1 Kings 11:7</a></span><br />Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_kings/11-33.htm">1 Kings 11:33</a></span><br />because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/1-1.htm">2 Kings 1:1</a></span><br /><span class="boldtext">Moab</span> rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/3-4.htm">2 Kings 3:4</a></span><br />Now Mesha king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> was a sheep breeder; and he rendered to the king of Israel the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/3-5.htm">2 Kings 3:5</a></span><br />But it happened, when Ahab was dead, that the king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> rebelled against the king of Israel.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/3-7.htm">2 Kings 3:7</a></span><br />He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, "The king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab to battle?" He said, "I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/3-10.htm">2 Kings 3:10</a></span><br />The king of Israel said, "Alas! For Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/3-13.htm">2 Kings 3:13</a></span><br />Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother." The king of Israel said to him, "No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/3-18.htm">2 Kings 3:18</a></span><br />This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand. <br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/3-21.htm">2 Kings 3:21</a></span><br />Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood on the border.<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/3-23.htm">2 Kings 3:23</a></span><br />They said, "This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, to the spoil!"<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/3-24.htm">2 Kings 3:24</a></span><br />When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites.<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/3-25.htm">2 Kings 3:25</a></span><br />Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/3-26.htm">2 Kings 3:26</a></span><br />When the king of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/13-20.htm">2 Kings 13:20</a></span><br />Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/23-13.htm">2 Kings 23:13</a></span><br />The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_chronicles/1-46.htm">1 Chronicles 1:46</a></span><br />Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_chronicles/4-22.htm">1 Chronicles 4:22</a></span><br />and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and Jashubilehem. The records are ancient.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_chronicles/8-8.htm">1 Chronicles 8:8</a></span><br />Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_chronicles/11-22.htm">1 Chronicles 11:22</a></span><br />Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons of Ariel of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_chronicles/18-2.htm">1 Chronicles 18:2</a></span><br />He struck <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_chronicles/18-11.htm">1 Chronicles 18:11</a></span><br />These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, and from <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/20-1.htm">2 Chronicles 20:1</a></span><br />It happened after this, that the children of <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/20-10.htm">2 Chronicles 20:10</a></span><br />Now, behold, the children of Ammon and <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/20-22.htm">2 Chronicles 20:22</a></span><br />When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the children of Ammon, <span class="boldtext">Moab</span>, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/20-23.htm">2 Chronicles 20:23</a></span><br />For the children of Ammon and <span class="boldtext">Moab</span> stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><a href="/concordance/m/moab2.htm"></a><a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/m/moab.htm">Moab</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/m/moab--plains_of_israelites_come_in.htm">Moab: Plains of Israelites Come In</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/m/moab--plains_of_military_forces_numbered_in.htm">Moab: Plains of Military Forces Numbered In</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/m/moab--plains_of_the_israelites_renew_their_covenant_in.htm">Moab: Plains of The Israelites Renew Their Covenant In</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/m/moab--plains_of_the_land_of_promise_allotted_in.htm">Moab: Plains of The Land of Promise Allotted In</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/m/moab--plains_of_the_law_rehearsed_in,_by_moses.htm">Moab: Plains of The Law Rehearsed In, by Moses</a></p><p class="pspc"><a 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