Thematic Bible: A city of moab


Thematic Bible



and at the stream of the torrents that goes down to the dwelling of Ar and lies upon the border of Moab.

And Jehovah said to me, Do not besiege Moab, nor fight with them in battle. For I will not give you any of their land for a possession. Because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot for a possession.

today you are passing over the border of Moab, even Ar.

Rise up, set out and cross over the river Arnon. Behold! I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess, and fight with him in battle.

as the sons of Esau who live in Seir, and the Moabites who live in Ar, did to me, until I shall cross over Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God gives us.


For the cry has gone around the border of Moab, its howling even to Eglaim; yea, its howling even to Beer-elim.


and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth-diblathaim,


and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth-gamul, and on Beth-meon,


and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth. And Moab shall die with great noise, with shouting, with the sound of a trumpet.

Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized; and the mighty men's hearts in Moab shall be at that day like the heart of a woman in her pangs.


And they beat down the cities, and each man cast his stone on every good piece of land, and filled it. And they stopped all the wells of water, and cut down all the good trees. Only in Kir-haraseth did they leave the stones of it. But the slingers surrounded it and struck it.

Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like flutes, and my heart shall sound like flutes for the men of Kirheres, because the riches that he has gotten have perished.

So Moab shall howl for Moab, everyone shall howl. All of it shall howl for the foundations of Kir-hareseth; surely they are stricken.

Therefore my belly shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my bowels for Kir-hareseth.

So I will wail for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab, and shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.


My heart shall cry to Moab; his fugitives flee to Zoar, a heifer of three years. He goes up the ascent to Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of ruin.

For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of ruin.


We have cast them down. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon, and we have laid them waste even to Nophah which is to Medeba.