Moab in the Bible

Meaning: of his father

Exact Match

Now, Mesha king of Moab, was a sheep-master, - and used to render to the king of Israel, the wool of hundred thousand fat sheep, and of a hundred thousand rams.

Verse ConceptsLambsRamsSheepShepherds, As OccupationsTributesWoolOwning LivestockOne Hundred Thousand And More

And it came to pass, when Ahab died, that the king of Moab revolted against the king of Israel.

And he departed, and sent unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying - The king of Moab, hath revolted against me, wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said - I will go up, I am as thou art, my people are as thy people, my horses as thy horses.

Verse ConceptsFighting TogetherPeople Are The SameAcquiring Horses

Then said the king of Israel - Alas! for Yahweh hath called these three kings, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

Verse ConceptsThree MenGiven Into One's HandsGod Will Cause Defeat

And Elisha said unto the king of Israel - What have I and thou in common? get thee unto the prophets of thy father, and unto the prophets of thy mother. But the king of Israel said to him - Nay! for Yahweh hath called together these three kings, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

Verse ConceptsThree MenWhat Have We In Common?Given Into One's HandsGod Will Cause DefeatProphets Of Other Gods

And, this being a small thing in the eyes of Yahweh, he will deliver Moab into your hand;

Verse ConceptsUnimportant ThingsTo Be Given Into One's Hands

Now, all Moab, had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, - so they came together, from all who could gird on a girdle and upwards, and took their stand at the border.

And they will rise early in the morning, and the sun rose upon the waters and Moab will see from opposite the waters red as blood:

Verse ConceptsTurned To BloodThose Who Rose EarlyRosesSunshine

And they said, This is blood: the kings are entirely destroyed, and have smitten one another; and now, Moab, to the spoil!

Verse ConceptsPlunderingLifebloodKilling One Another

And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, and they fled before them; and they entered in and smote Moab.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsPeoples Who Fled

They destroyed the [walls of the] cities, and each man threw a stone on every piece of good land, covering it [with stones]. And they stopped up all the springs of water and cut down all the good trees, until they left nothing in Kir-hareseth [Moab’s capital city] but its stones. Then the [stone] slingers surrounded the city and destroyed it.

Verse ConceptsSlingsFelling TreesCities Under AttackThrowing StonesPeople Drying Things UpHarming Treescrusades

And the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, and he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not.

Verse ConceptsSeven To Nine Hundredvulnerability

Then the king of Moab took his eldest son, who was to reign in his place, and offered him [publicly] as a burnt offering [to Chemosh] on the [city] wall [horrifying everyone]. And there was great wrath against Israel, and Israel’s allies [Judah and Edom] withdrew from King Jehoram and returned to their own land.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeSanctity Of LifeWallsIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfSacrificing The FirstbornSacrifice

And Elisha will die, and they will bury him. And the troops of Moab will come against the land, the year came in.

Verse ConceptsSpringInvasions

The king also defiled the high places that were across from Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians; for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab; and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsFalse GodsHillsAbominations, Idolatry IsPolluting The LandServing Asherah

And Jehovah will send against him troops of Chaldeans and troops of Aram, and troops of Moab, and troops of the sons of Ammon, and he will send them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah which he spake by the hand of his servants the prophets.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtWord Of GodGod Spoke By The Prophets

Thematic Bible



We heard the pride of Moab; he was greatly elated; his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath; not so his empty talk


And he will take his son, the firstborn, which shall reign in his stead, and bring him up a burnt-offering upon the wall: and there will be great anger against Israel, and they will remove from him and turn back to the land.


And Israel will dwell in Shittim, and the people will begin to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab. And she called the people to the sacrifices of their God: and the people will eat and will worship to their God. And Israel will be bound to Baal-Peor; and the anger of Jehovah will kindle against Israel. read more.
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Take all the heads of the people and hang them up to Jehovah before the sun, and the burning anger of Jehovah shall turn back from Israel. And Moses will say to the judges of Israel, Kill ye each his men being bound to Baal-Peor.



These the reviewings of Moses and Eleazar the priest, who reviewed the sons of Israel in the desert of Moab, by Jordan of Jericho.

And Moses will speak, and Eleazar the priest, with them in the desert of Moab of Jericho, saying,


And Jehovah will speak to me, saying, Pass thou over this day Ar, the boundary of Moab:


These which Moses caused to inherit in the sterile regions of Moab from beyond Jordan of Jericho from the sunrising.


And the first-born will bring forth a son, and she will call his name Moab: this the father of Moab till this day.


These the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.


We heard the pride of Moab; he was greatly elated; his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath; not so his empty talk


We heard the pride of Moab; he was greatly lifted up; his haughtiness and his pride, and his lifting up, and the elation of his heart I knew, says Jehovah, his wrath; and not thus; his empty talks did not so.


For the fields of Heshbon languished, the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the nations struck its vine of purple grapes, they reached even to Jazer, they wandered to the desert: her sprouts were thrust out, they passed over the sea. For this I will weep with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealah: for upon thy fruit harvest and upon thy harvest the vintage shout fell. And joy and gladness was taken away from Carmel, and in the vineyards there shall be no shout for joy, there shall be no cry with a loud voice: and he treading shall not tread out wine in the wine-vat: I caused the vintage shout to cease.

With the weeping of Jazer, I will weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah: thy tendrils passed over the sea, even to the sea of Jazer they reached: he laying waste fell upon thy fruit harvest, and upon thy vintage. And joy and gladness was taken away from Carmel, and from the land of Moab; and I caused wine to cease from the wine vats: they shall not tread the shout of joy; the shout of joy, not the shout of joy.


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