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Person

Moab

Also called Moabitess, Moabitish, Moabites

Mentioned in 149 verses across 22 books, first in Genesis 19:37. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

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In the Bible

The first 10 of 149 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

  • Genesis 19:37

    The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

  • Genesis 36:35

    When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.

Exodus

  • Exodus 15:15

    Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,

Numbers

  • Numbers 21:11

    They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness opposite Moab to the east.

  • Numbers 21:13

    From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends into the Amorite territory. Now the Arnon is the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.

  • Numbers 21:15

    even the slopes of the wadis that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”

  • Numbers 21:20

    and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.

  • Numbers 21:26

    Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.

  • Numbers 21:28

    For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.

  • Numbers 21:29

    Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

Events

Events the dataset lists Moab as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

  1. c. 1360 BC
    Deliverance by EhudJudges 3:15–30 · at Canaan

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

Used to denote the people of Moab (Num. 22:3-14; Judg. 3:30; 2 Sam. 8:2; Jer. 48:11, 13).

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