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    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Moab. Every Moab in the Bible

    place · also Moabite

    Moab

    מוֹאָב

    Moab was an ancient kingdom located east of the Dead Sea in present-day Jordan, often in conflict with Israel.

    Where the story of Moab happensMoab, and 7 places the claims reach, framed to them: Moab, Edom, Engedi, Beer-elim, Eglaim, Heshbon, Iye-abarim, Luhith. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.MoabEdomEngediBeer-elimEglaimHeshbonLuhith
    Moab, and 7 places the claims reach
    verses
    160
    first named
    Genesis 19:37
    last named
    Zephaniah 2:10
    feature
    region
    coordinates
    31.28°N · 35.87°E
    region31.28°N · 35.87°E

    Khirbet el Medeineh (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    IllustrationNumbers 22Balaam's donkey is trapped against a wall by an armed angel barring the road, while Balaam sees only the animal's refusal to move.

    Description

    Moab in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Moab was an ancient kingdom located east of the Dead Sea in the central Transjordan region, in what is now the country of Jordan. The Moabites were a Semitic People from Moab, the son of Lot by his elder daughter (Gen. 19:37).

    The Moabites first appear in the biblical record at the time of the Exodus. Balak, the king of Moab, feared the Israelites and hired Balaam to curse them (Num. 22-24). The Moabites worshipped the god Chemosh and induced some Israelites to join in their idolatrous sacrifices (Num. 25:1-2).

    Throughout the time of the judges and early monarchy, the Moabites were in frequent conflict with Israel. King Saul fought against them (1Sam. 14:47), and David subjugated them and made them tributaries (2Sam. 8:2,12). After the division of the kingdom, the Moabites regained their independence.

    During the reign of King Omri of Israel (c. 884-872 BC), who is mentioned in 1Ki.16.23-28, Moabite lands were reconquered. However, about 40 years later, the Moabite king Mesha rebelled against Israel, as recorded on the famous Moabite Stone discovered in 1868 in Dibon (modern Dhiban, Jordan).

    The prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Amos all prophesied against Moab (Isa. 15-16, Jer. 48, Ezek. 25:8-11, Amo.2.1-2). After the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC, some Jews took refuge in Moab (Jer. 40:11). Moab disappears as a nation from the historical record sometime during the Persian period.

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    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

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    and 77 more, ordered by how many events they share.

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    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 160, across 23 books. The name is written 184 times in them.

    1. Genesis2 verses

      19:3736:35

    2. Exodus1 verse

      15:15

    3. Numbers21 verses

      21:1121:1321:1521:2021:2621:2821:2922:322:422:722:822:1022:1422:2122:3623:623:723:1724:1725:133:44

    4. Deuteronomy11 verses

      1:52:82:92:112:182:2923:329:132:4934:534:6

    5. Joshua1 verse

      24:9

    6. Judges12 verses

      3:123:143:153:173:283:293:3010:611:1511:1711:1811:25

    7. Ruth11 verses

      1:11:21:41:61:222:22:62:214:34:54:10

    8. 1 Samuel4 verses

      12:914:4722:322:4

    9. 2 Samuel3 verses

      8:28:1223:20

    10. 1 Kings3 verses

      11:111:711:33

    11. 2 Kings15 verses

      1:13:43:53:73:103:133:183:213:223:233:243:2613:2023:1324:2

    12. 1 Chronicles7 verses

      1:464:228:811:2211:4618:218:11

    13. 2 Chronicles5 verses

      20:120:1020:2220:2324:26

    14. Ezra1 verse

      9:1

    15. Nehemiah2 verses

      13:113:23

    16. Psalms3 verses

      60:883:6108:9

    17. Isaiah16 verses

      11:1415:115:215:415:515:815:916:216:416:616:716:1116:1216:1316:1425:10

    18. Jeremiah33 verses

      9:2625:2127:340:1148:148:248:448:948:1148:1348:1548:1648:1848:2048:2448:2548:2648:2848:2948:3148:3348:3548:3648:3848:3948:4048:4148:4248:4348:4448:4548:4648:47

    19. Ezekiel3 verses

      25:825:925:11

    20. Daniel1 verse

      11:41

    21. Amos2 verses

      2:12:2

    22. Micah1 verse

      6:5

    23. Zephaniah2 verses

      2:82:9

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    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via David’s dedication and Giving Ammon Possession, and 3 moreAmmonAn ancient nation and its capital city, enemies of Israel.via Moses’ covenant of Lords Oath and Israelite Journeys, and 2 moreMosesProphet who led Israel out of Egyptvia Giving Ammon Possession and LORD’s summoning of Three Kings, and 1 moreLORDNames or title used to refer to Godvia Israelite Journeys and Judgment of Dibon, Nebo, and Diblathaim, and 1 moreNeboA city and mountain in Moabvia Fighting of Moab and Saul’s fightingFightingFighting is a concept gathering 40 labelled instances in the text.via Fighting of Moab and Moab Ammon Meunite WarJehoshaphatSon of Asa, king of Judah.via David’s dedication and Saul’s fightingEdomDescendants of Esau; enemy nation southeast of Israelvia Moab Ammon Meunite War and Raiding of Jehoiakim and JudahJudahIsraelite tribe, kingdom, and provincevia David’s dedication and Saul’s fightingPhilistiaAn ancient people and region in Canaan

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    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    12 more chapters, from 1 Chronicles 18 to Zephaniah 2

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