Moab Summary
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Moab was an ancient kingdom located east of the Dead Sea in present-day Jordan, often in conflict with Israel.
Moab
PlaceAncient kingdom east of the Dead Sea in Jordan
Names
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Moab
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- en Moab,Moabite · Also called
- en Moabite,Moab · Also called
- en Moabite · Also called
- en Moabites · Also called
- he מוֹאָב · H4124G
- he מוֹאָבִי · H4125
- bg Моав
Location
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Gen 19:37
Gen 36:35
Exod 15:15
Num 21:11
Num 21:13
Num 21:15
Num 21:20
Num 21:26
Num 21:28
Num 21:29
Num 22:1
Num 22:3
Num 22:4
Num 22:7
Num 22:8
Num 22:10
Num 22:14
Num 22:21
Num 22:36
Num 23:6
Num 23:7
Num 23:17
Num 24:17
Num 25:1
Num 25:2
Num 26:3
Num 26:63
Num 31:12
Num 33:44
Num 33:48
Num 33:49
Num 33:50
Num 35:1
Num 36:13
Deut 1:5
Deut 2:8
Deut 2:9
Deut 2:11
Deut 2:18
Deut 2:29
Deut 23:3
Deut 29:1
Deut 32:49
Deut 34:1
Deut 34:5
Deut 34:6
Deut 34:8
Josh 13:32
Josh 24:9
Judg 3:12
Judg 3:14
Judg 3:15
Judg 3:17
Judg 3:28
Judg 3:29
Judg 3:30
Judg 10:6
Judg 11:15
Judg 11:17
Judg 11:18
Judg 11:25
Ruth 1:1
Ruth 1:2
Ruth 1:4
Ruth 1:6
Ruth 1:22
Ruth 2:2
Ruth 2:6
Ruth 2:21
Ruth 4:3
Ruth 4:5
Ruth 4:10
1 Sam 12:9
1 Sam 14:47
1 Sam 22:3
1 Sam 22:4
2 Sam 8:2
2 Sam 8:12
2 Sam 23:20
1 Kgs 11:1
1 Kgs 11:7
1 Kgs 11:33
2 Kgs 1:1
2 Kgs 3:4
2 Kgs 3:5
2 Kgs 3:7
2 Kgs 3:10
2 Kgs 3:13
2 Kgs 3:18
2 Kgs 3:21
2 Kgs 3:22
2 Kgs 3:23
2 Kgs 3:24
2 Kgs 3:26
2 Kgs 3:27
2 Kgs 13:20
2 Kgs 23:13
2 Kgs 24:2
1 Chr 1:46
1 Chr 4:22
1 Chr 8:8
1 Chr 11:22
1 Chr 11:46
1 Chr 18:2
1 Chr 18:11
2 Chr 20:1
2 Chr 20:10
2 Chr 20:22
2 Chr 20:23
2 Chr 24:26
Ezra 9:1
Neh 13:1
Neh 13:23
Ps 60:8
Ps 83:6
Ps 108:9
Isa 11:14
Isa 15:1
Isa 15:2
Isa 15:4
Isa 15:5
Isa 15:8
Isa 15:9
Isa 16:2
Isa 16:3
Isa 16:4
Isa 16:6
Isa 16:7
Isa 16:8
Isa 16:11
Isa 16:12
Isa 16:13
Isa 16:14
Isa 25:10
Isa 25:11
Isa 25:12
Jer 9:26
Jer 25:21
Jer 27:3
Jer 40:11
Jer 48:1
Jer 48:2
Jer 48:4
Jer 48:7
Jer 48:9
Jer 48:11
Jer 48:12
Jer 48:13
Jer 48:14
Jer 48:15
Jer 48:16
Jer 48:17
Jer 48:18
Jer 48:19
Jer 48:20
Jer 48:24
Jer 48:25
Jer 48:26
Jer 48:27
Jer 48:28
Jer 48:29
Jer 48:31
Jer 48:33
Jer 48:35
Jer 48:36
Jer 48:38
Jer 48:39
Jer 48:40
Jer 48:41
Jer 48:42
Jer 48:43
Jer 48:44
Jer 48:45
Jer 48:46
Jer 48:47
Ezek 25:8
Ezek 25:9
Ezek 25:10
Ezek 25:11
Dan 11:41
Amos 2:1
Amos 2:2
Amos 2:3
Mic 6:5
Zeph 2:8
Zeph 2:9
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Moab Article
STEPBible TIPNR
Moab was an ancient kingdom located east of the Dead Sea in the central Transjordan region, in what is now the country of Jordan. The Moabites were a Semitic People from Moab, the son of Lot by his elder daughter (Gen. 19:37).
The Moabites first appear in the biblical record at the time of the Exodus. Balak, the king of Moab, feared the Israelites and hired Balaam to curse them (Num. 22-24). The Moabites worshipped the god Chemosh and induced some Israelites to join in their idolatrous sacrifices (Num. 25:1-2).
Throughout the time of the judges and early monarchy, the Moabites were in frequent conflict with Israel. King Saul fought against them (1Sam. 14:47), and David subjugated them and made them tributaries (2Sam. 8:2,12). After the division of the kingdom, the Moabites regained their independence.
During the reign of King Omri of Israel (c. 884-872 BC), who is mentioned in 1Ki.16.23-28, Moabite lands were reconquered. However, about 40 years later, the Moabite king Mesha rebelled against Israel, as recorded on the famous Moabite Stone discovered in 1868 in Dibon (modern Dhiban, Jordan).
The prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Amos all prophesied against Moab (Isa. 15-16, Jer. 48, Ezek. 25:8-11, Amo.2.1-2). After the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC, some Jews took refuge in Moab (Jer. 40:11). Moab disappears as a nation from the historical record sometime during the Persian period.
Moab 2 Dictionary
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
The land of Moab (Jer. 48:24), called also the “country of Moab” (Ruth 1:2, 6; 2:6), on the east of Jordan and the Dead Sea, and south of the Arnon (Num. 21:13, 26). In a wider sense it included the whole region that had been occupied by the Amorites. It bears the modern name of Kerak.
In the Plains of Moab, opposite Jericho (Num. 22:1; 26:63; Josh. 13:32), 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 (Num. 21:22). “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” (Deut. 34:5, 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.”
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