MOABITES

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• Genesis 19:37

  The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

• Numbers 21:13

  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 Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

• Numbers 21:29

  Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.

• Numbers 22:4

  Moab 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.

• Numbers 25:1

  Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;

• Numbers 25:2

  for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.

• Numbers 25:3

  Israel joined himself to Baal Peor. Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.

• Deuteronomy 2:9

  Yahweh said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”

• Deuteronomy 2:29

  as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.”

• Joshua 24:9

  Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,

• Judges 11:17

  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 Moab; but he would not: and Israel stayed in Kadesh.

• Judges 11:18

  Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, 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.

• Ruth 1:4

  They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.

• 1 Samuel 22:3

  David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab, 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.”

• 1 Samuel 22:4

  He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.

• 2 Samuel 8:2

  He struck Moab, 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.

• 2 Samuel 23:20

  Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow.

• 1 Kings 11:1

  Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

• 2 Kings 3:5

  But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

• 2 Kings 3:6

  King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.

• 2 Kings 3:7

  He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, “The king of Moab 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.”

• 2 Kings 3:8

  He said, “Which way shall we go up?” He answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”

• 2 Kings 3:9

  So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.

• 2 Kings 3:10

  The king of Israel said, “Alas! For Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”

• 2 Kings 3:11

  But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there a prophet of Yahweh here, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?” One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah, is here.”

• 2 Kings 3:12

  Jehoshaphat said, “Yahweh’s word is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

• 2 Kings 3:13

  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 Moab.”

• 2 Kings 3:14

  Elisha said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.

• 2 Kings 3:15

  But now bring me a musician.” When the musician played, Yahweh’s hand came on him.

• 2 Kings 3:16

  He said, “Yahweh says, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’

• 2 Kings 3:17

  For Yahweh says, ‘You will not see wind, neither will you see rain, yet that valley will be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your other animals.

• 2 Kings 3:18

  This is an easy thing in Yahweh’s sight. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.

• 2 Kings 3:19

  You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’”

• 2 Kings 3:20

  In the morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

• 2 Kings 3:21

  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, young and old, and stood on the border.

• 2 Kings 3:22

  They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.

• 2 Kings 3:23

  They said, “This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the plunder!”

• 2 Kings 3:24

  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 attacking the Moabites.

• 2 Kings 3:25

  They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones; however the men armed with slings went around it, and attacked it.

• 2 Kings 3:26

  When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.

• 2 Kings 3:27

  Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

• 2 Kings 13:20

  Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.

• 2 Kings 24:2

  Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

• 1 Chronicles 8:8

  Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away. Hushim and Baara were his wives.

• 1 Chronicles 11:22

  Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.

• 1 Chronicles 18:2

  He defeated Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

• 1 Chronicles 18:3

  David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.

• 1 Chronicles 18:4

  David took from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them enough for one hundred chariots.

• 1 Chronicles 18:5

  When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.

• 1 Chronicles 18:6

  Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

• 1 Chronicles 18:7

  David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 18:8

  From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much brass, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, the pillars, and the vessels of brass.

• 1 Chronicles 18:9

  When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,

• 1 Chronicles 18:10

  he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him (for Hadadezer had wars with Tou); and he had with him all kinds of vessels of gold and silver and brass.

• 1 Chronicles 18:11

  King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, from Moab, from the children of Ammon, from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

• Ezra 9:1

  Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

• Ezra 9:2

  For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

• Nehemiah 13:23

  In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

• Micah 6:5

  My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”