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died during the course of their travels, and their travel journals were edited and published posthumously by editors who did not always understand the details. Burckhardt's journal was published first, in 1822, and served as the basis for the Moab segment of Edward Robinson's map of Palestine published in 1841. Robinson's map depicts several strange features for the Moab segment, most of which can be traced to editorial mistakes in Burckhardt's journal and/or to entirely understandable misinterpretations of the journal on Robinson's part. Unfortunately, these strange features would linger on in maps of Palestine throughout the nineteenth century.
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Among the travellers who traversed the whole Moabite plateau including Moab proper prior to 1870 and whose published observations deserve special mention are Ulrich Seetzen (1805), Ludwig Burckhardt (1812), Charles Irby and James Mangles (1818), and Louis de Saulcy (1851). Both Seetzen and Burckhardt
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was one of the four men who pretended to be gods. He was persuaded thereto particularly by the princes, who said to him. "Wert thou not a god thou couldst not come out alive from the Holy of Holies" (Ex R. viii. 3). He was assassinated by two of his servants, one of whom was the son of an Ammonite
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expresses the view that the prohibition applied only to male Moabites, who were not allowed to marry born Jews or legitimate converts. Female Moabites, when converted to Judaism, were permitted to marry with only the normal prohibition of a convert marrying a kohen (priest) applying. However, the
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The book of Zephaniah states that "Moab will assuredly be like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah—Ground overgrown with weeds and full of salt mines, and a permanent desolation." (2:9). The prophecy regarding their defeat by the Israelites is linked to the conquests by the Jewish
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According to the biblical account, the crimson color deceived the Moabites into thinking that the Israelites, and their allies, had attacked one another. Eager to acquire plunder, they were ambushed and defeated by the Israelites
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The term "tenth generation" used in connection with that prohibition is considered an idiom, used for an unlimited time, as opposed to the third generation, which allows an Egyptian convert to marry into the community. The
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directed the Israelites to dig a series of ditches between themselves and the enemy, and during the night these channels were miraculously filled with water which appeared red as blood in the morning light.
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to curse them. The difference in the responses of the two people led to God allowing the Jewish people to harass the Moabites (but not go to war) but forbade them to even harass the Ammonites (
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Another inscription from Luxor mentions that Ramses and his eldest son called the Egyptians the "leader of Moab" and reprimanded him for trying to make an alliance with the
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sent troops to the area and suppressed the rebellion - in the inscriptions of Ramesses II, the Moabites are shown as having hairstyles identical to those of the resident
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in Hebrew and Arabic and the rest of the Semitic languages means "father". He writes that as a result of the immodesty of Moab's name, God did not command the
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The other three were Pharaoh; Hiram and Nebuchadnezzar (Louis Ginzberg's The Legends of the Jews From Moses to Esther; Notes for Volumes Three and Four(p.423)
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may be said to have been part Moabite. He committed his parents to the protection of the king of Moab (who may have been his kinsman), when hard pressed by
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Despite a scarcity of archaeological evidence, the existence of the Kingdom of Moab prior to the rise of the Israelite state has been deduced from a
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Miller, Max (1997). "Ancient Moab: Still Largely Unknown". In George Ernest Wright; Frank Moore Cross; Edward Fay Campbell (eds.).
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76B explains that one of the reasons was the Ammonites did not greet the Children of Israel with friendship and the Moabites hired
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The Moabites first inhabited the rich highlands at the eastern side of the chasm of the Dead Sea, extending as far as
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is simply reporting the events in an impartial fashion, leaving any praise or condemnation to be done by the reader.
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the relations of Moab with Israel were of a mixed character, sometimes warlike and sometimes peaceable. With the
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An 8th-century BCE inscription seems to indicate that the Kingdom of Moab expanded into the eastern part of the
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of Assyria allows Moab to benefit in return from the support of Assyria against the nomadic tribes of the
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in a war against the Moabites, who were under tribute to Israel. The Moabites were subdued, but seeing
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A theoretical map of the region around 830 BCE. Moab is shown in purple on this map, between the
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and led an Israelite army against the Moabites at a ford of the Jordan river, killing many of them.
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as a rebellious place that refuses to recognize Egypt's control over Canaan and, together with the
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to refrain from inflicting pain upon the Moabites in the manner in which he did with regard to the
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The territory occupied by Moab at the period of its greatest extent, before the invasion of the
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According to the Book of Judges, the Israelites did not pass through the land of the Moabites (
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wrote the Book of Ruth to settle the dispute as the rule had been forgotten since the time of
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According to the Hebrew Bible, the Moabites were not hospitable to the Israelites who exited
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and Lot's elder and younger daughters, respectively, in the aftermath of the destruction of
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The Land of Moab: Travels and Discoveries on the East Side of the Dead Sea and the Jordan
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they had at least one severe struggle, in union with their kindred the Ammonites and the
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James B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 1969
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Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2020).
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The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan: Final Report on the Limes Arabicus Project
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References to the religion of Moab are scant. Most of the Moabites followed the
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filled Israel with horror, and they withdrew and returned to their own land.
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were offered to Chemosh, as by Mesha, who gave up his son and heir to him (
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to the south of Kiriathaim. The principal rivers of Moab mentioned in the
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Early Edom and Moab: The Beginning of the Iron Age in Southern Jordan
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is attested to by numerous archaeological findings, most notably the
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Verhandlungen des Zwölften Internationalen Orientalisten-Congresses
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The following is a list of rulers of the ancient kingdom of Moab.
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in 63 BCE, Moab lost its distinct identity through assimilation.
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to curse them. As a consequence, male Moabites were excluded by
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A History of Ancient Moab from the Ninth to First Centuries BCE
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built a "high place" for Chemosh on the hill before Jerusalem (
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with the Israelites at Moab before the Israelites entered the
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States and territories disestablished in the 4th century BC
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so that they would help him get out of Egyptian control.
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states that Moab would become "a permanent desolation".
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among a series of nations conquered during a campaign.
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says that they induced the Israelites to join in their
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Four inscriptions from the time of Ramesses II mention
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Moabite sarcophagus in Jordan Archaeological Museum in
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with the language of the Mêša˓ inscription appear in
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kingdom whose territory is today located in southern
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Moab in the Iron Age: Hegemony, Polity, Archaeology
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According to 643: 2697: 2505:"Torah of Yeshuah: Book of Meqabyan I - III" 1496:the boundaries are given as being marked by 933:According to the biblical account, Moab and 837:Musuri, King of Moab, paid too a tribute to 734:, in the 13th century BCE. The statue lists 2745:. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 395. 2612:"Zephaniah 2 Commentary: Gill's Exposition" 2300:. Leicester University Press. p. 114. 2298:The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land 2139: 1369:). The Talmud also states that the prophet 1188:). According to Mesha's inscription on the 818:a revolt against him by Moab together with 3045: 3031: 2804: 2443:The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings 1583:. In the north are a number of long, deep 1357:) who by her was the great-grandfather of 900: 877:seemed to have defeated Ammuladi, king of 650: 636: 64: 59:c. 13th century BCE – c. 400 BCE 2974: 2953: 2829:Studies in the Mesha Inscription and Moab 2680: 2063:Studies in the Mesha Inscription and Moab 1879:Learn how and when to remove this message 1769:, and was written using a variant of the 1365:(Hebrew, like all Semitic languages, has 749:of Mount Seir, conducted raids in Egypt. 2937: 2736: 2393: 1322:On the other hand, the marriages of the 1295:prohibition was not followed during the 1121:, whose name means "ruler of Moab". The 1064: 826:, which recounts the expedition against 776:after a successful campaign against the 701: 682: 671: 2947:(Second ed.). London: John Murray. 2825: 2732: 2730: 2660: 2100: 2060: 960:, from which country they expelled the 14: 4013: 2663:"Iron Age Cultic Sites in Transjordan" 2322: 2253:Parker, Samuel; Betlyon, John (2006). 2211:Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 2085: 2065:. Atlanta: Scholars Press. p. 1. 1713:, at times, especially in dire peril, 1682:). Their chief god seems to have been 1591:, famous as the scene of the death of 1269: 1254:Moab is also made reference to in the 1207:Allusions to Moab are frequent in the 928: 241:, Moab was often in conflict with its 3026: 2539: 2246: 1377:. Another interpretation is that the 1159:in about 853 BCE, the Moabites under 2981:. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2727: 2372: 2201: 1988: 1959: 1817:adding citations to reliable sources 1788: 27:Ancient kingdom East of the Dead Sea 2401:Religion, Citizenship and Democracy 2285: 2107:The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 791:(r. 745–727 BCE), the Moabite king 24: 3968:Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions 3053:Ancient states and regions in the 2798: 2542:"The Iniquities of Ammon and Moab" 2304:from the original on 9 August 2021 2273:from the original on 10 April 2023 1931: 1264:Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church 853:. They send building materials to 25: 4072: 2996: 1784: 1422:Jehoshaphet subsequently joined 278:to mean "from the father", since 32:Moorish Science Temple of America 4026:Ancient peoples of the Near East 2394:Ostmeyer, Karl-Heinrich (2021). 2101:Kitchen, K. A. (December 1964). 1793: 1664:ancient Semitic-speaking peoples 1311:, the son of an Ammonite woman, 1307:). The heir of King Solomon was 1286:law from marrying Jewish women. 795:(perhaps the Shalman who sacked 619: 334: 174: 3008:by Archibald Henry Sayce (1895) 2770: 2759:from the original on 2014-06-28 2716:from the original on 2018-12-11 2654: 2633: 2622: 2604: 2590: 2576: 2567: 2533: 2522: 2511:from the original on 2019-09-23 2497: 2486: 2475:from the original on 2021-11-08 2457: 2434: 2387: 2357:from the original on 2020-08-06 2316: 2259:. Dumbarton Oaks. p. 573. 2169:Journal of Near Eastern Studies 1804:needs additional citations for 1460:, Israel's ancestor, had saved 806:) is mentioned as tributary to 2737:Bromiley, Geoffrey W. (2007). 2237: 2195: 2156: 2133: 2094: 2079: 2054: 1966: 1639:in the tropical depths of the 1488:Boundaries in the Hebrew Bible 1058:assassinated the Moabite king 822:, Judah, and Edom; but on the 302:= "his mother is his father". 13: 1: 2826:Dearman, John Andrew (1989). 2661:Steiner, Margreet L. (2019). 2048: 1894: 1753:was spoken in Moab. It was a 1628:, called the "land of Moab" ( 1620:north of the Arnon, opposite 1074:Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld 717: 3220:Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia 2649:https://www.encyclopedia.com 2540:Klein, Reuven Chaim (2015). 2410:10.1007/978-3-030-83277-3_13 1231:, are frequently mentioned ( 1091:. By his descent from Ruth, 964:, the original inhabitants ( 857:. Moab militarily supported 544:Establishment of the Emirate 248: 7: 2061:Dearman, J. Andrew (1989). 2035: 1744: 1653: 1117:were a clan descended from 767: 585:Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 229:, an episode also noted in 10: 4077: 2954:MacDonald, Burton (2020). 2805:Bienkowski, Piotr (1992). 2381:التاريخ الجزء الأول الصف 8 2326:The Biblical Archaeologist 1999: 1167:, who allied himself with 1087:, one of the towns of the 1070:Ruth in the fields of Boaz 893:conquest of the Levant by 884: 661: 605:Israel–Jordan peace treaty 305: 233:. The Moabite capital was 36: 29: 3955: 3849: 3590: 3123: 3065: 2975:Routledge, Bruce (2004). 1976: 1635:) and the district below 1384:The Babylonian Talmud in 157: 153: 143: 139:c. 13th century BCE  133: 129: 121: 111: 101: 91: 83: 63: 58: 46: 4031:Semitic-speaking peoples 3017:Smith's Bible Dictionary 2645:Encyclopedia of Religion 2379:وزارة التربية والتعليم. 2296:. In Thomas Levy (ed.). 1660:ancient Semitic religion 1035:. After the conquest of 923:Louis Félicien de Saulcy 911:Johann Ludwig Burckhardt 245:neighbours to the west. 2931:The Jewish Encyclopedia 2854:' Hebrew grammar, e.g. 2639:Holm, Tawny L. (2005). 2140:Na'aman, Nadav (2006). 1706:or Khirbet al-Mudayna. 1624:and up to the hills of 1464:, Moab's ancestor from 901:19th-century travellers 849:and other kings of the 549:Trans-Jordan memorandum 210:. The existence of the 3813:Luwian-Aramaean states 2549:Jewish Bible Quarterly 2202:Gass, Erasmus (2012). 1076: 975:, who had crossed the 714: 699: 680: 554:Emirate of Transjordan 298:as an abbreviation of 3997:31.50167°N 35.77667°E 3664:Neo-Babylonian Empire 3248:Canaanite city-states 3005:Patriarchal Palestine 1448:, Moab was exiled to 1337:to the Moabite women 1068: 1012:). 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Moabites
Moorish Science Temple of America
Moab (disambiguation)
A theoretical map of the region around 830 BCE. Moab is shown in purple on this map, between the Arnon and Zered rivers.
Arnon
Zered
Dibon
Moabite
Canaanite religion
Jordan
/ˈmæb/
Levantine
Jordan
Dead Sea
Mesha Stele
King
Omri
Israel
2 Kings 3
Dibon
Hebrew Bible
Israelite
gloss
Koine Greek
Septuagint
Genesis 19:37
Rashi
Israelites
Ammonites
Fritz Hommel

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