Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The principal rivers of Moab mentioned in the Bible are the Arnon, the Dibon or Dimon, [22] and the Nimrim. In the north are a number of long, deep ravines, and Mount Nebo, famous as the scene of the death of Moses (Deuteronomy 34:1–8).
What is the significance of Moab in the Bible? Answer. Moab, a small kingdom in the central Transjordan, was a familiar setting in the Bible. Genesis 19:30–38 accounts for the origins of the nation of Moab. After Lot and his daughters escaped from Sodom, they lived in a cave in the hills near Zoar. When Lot became drunk, his daughters seduced him.
The son of the oldest daughter was named Moab, the father of the Moabites. These two half-brothers would become two powerful nations. Both the Moabites and the Ammonites occupied the surrounding land on the eastern border of Israel, east of the Dead Sea.
1. Name and origin. The ancestor of the Moabites was Moab, the son of Lot by incestuous union with his eldest daughter (Gen 19:30-38). The son was born in the hills above Zoar, presumably in S Moab.
The Moabites were a tribe descended from Moab, the son of Lot, born of an incestuous relationship with his oldest daughter (Genesis 19:37). From Zoar, the cradle of this tribe, on the southeastern border of the Dead Sea, they gradually spread over the region on the east of Jordan.
The Moabites were ancient people who were frequently mentioned in the Bible. They are primarily known as the descendants of Lot, Abraham's nephew, through an incestuous union with his eldest daughter following the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
When the kingdoms of Israel and Judah controlled the land of Canaan, the kingdoms of Ammon, Moab and Edom ruled east of the Jordan. Although the Bible offers information about these three Iron Age kingdoms, recent archaeological discoveries are bringing to light a fuller picture of them.
Moab. (of his father), Moabites. Moab was the son of the Lot's eldest daughter, the progenitor of the Moabites. Zoar was the cradle of the race of Lot. From this centre the brother tribes spread themselves.
Moab was a flourishing kingdom east of the Dead Sea that competed politically and militarily with Israel. Both David and Jesus are descendants of a Moabite (Ruth). Moabites and Israelites could probably understand each other’s languages. The Mesha Stela presents a Moabite version of 2Kgs 3.
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 22:1 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.