Moab
Moab was an ancient Levantine kingdom whose territory is today located in southern Jordan. The land is mountainous and lies alongside much of the eastern shore of the Dead Sea.
Quotes about
[edit]- We have heard of the pride of Moab—
- He is very proud—
- Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath;
- But his lies shall not be so.
- Book of Isaiah 16:6 NKJV.
- Then the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ”
- (The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. They were also regarded as giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim. 12 The Horites formerly dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the Lord gave them.)
- Book of Deuteronomy 2:9-12 NKJV.
- Kerioth is taken,
- And the strongholds are surprised;
- The mighty men’s hearts in Moab on that day shall be
- Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.
- And Moab shall be destroyed as a people,
- Because he exalted himself against the Lord.
- Fear and the pit and the snare shall be upon you,
- O inhabitant of Moab,” says the Lord.
- “He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit,
- And he who gets out of the pit shall be caught in the snare.
- For upon Moab, upon it I will bring
- The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.
- Book of Jeremiah 48:41-44 NKJV.
- “An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord forever, because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. Nevertheless the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you.
- Deuteronomy 23:4-5 NKJV.
- Therefore, as I live,”
- Says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
- “Surely Moab shall be like Sodom,
- And the people of Ammon like Gomorrah—
- Overrun with weeds and saltpits,
- And a perpetual desolation.
- The residue of My people shall plunder them,
- And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”
- Book of Zephaniah 2:9 NKJV.
- Moab is My washpot;
- Over Edom I will cast My shoe;
- Over Philistia I will triumph.”
- Who will bring me into the strong city?
- Who will lead me to Edom?
- Is it not You, O God, who cast us off?
- And You, O God, who did not go out with our armies?
- Give us help from trouble,
- For the help of man is useless.
- Book of Psalms 108:9-12 NKJV.
- “Moab has been at ease from [a]his youth;
- He has settled on his dregs,
- And has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
- Nor has he gone into captivity.
- Therefore his taste remained in him,
- And his scent has not changed.
- “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
- “That I shall send him wine-workers
- Who will tip him over
- And empty his vessels
- And break the bottles.
- Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh,
- As the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
- Book of Jeremiah 48:11-13 NKJV.
- For on this mountain the hand of the Lord will rest,
.And Moab shall be trampled down under Him,
- As straw is trampled down for the refuse heap.
- And He will spread out His hands in their midst
- As a swimmer reaches out to swim,
- And He will bring down their pride
- Together with the trickery of their hands.
- The fortress of the high fort of your walls
- He will bring down, lay low,
- And bring to the ground, down to the dust.
- Isaiah 25:10-12 NKJV.
