Moab

Identified as

Moab 1

Certainty

Widely agreed

Coordinates

31.181° N, 35.701° E

• Subjugation by Eglon

Moab, Moabites

Founded by

Moab

• מוֹאָב·Moab
• מוֹאָבִי·Moab

Includes 17 verses that refer to Moab without naming it.

1. Psalm 83:6
   …the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
2. Psalm 108:9
   Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
3. Isaiah 11:14
   They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
4. Isaiah 15:1
   This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!
5. Isaiah 15:2
   Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
6. Isaiah 15:3Referred to, not named
   In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
7. Isaiah 15:4
   Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.
8. Isaiah 15:5
   My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
9. Isaiah 15:7Referred to, not named
   So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.
10. Isaiah 15:8
    For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.
11. Isaiah 15:9
    The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon—a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
12. Isaiah 16:1Referred to, not named
    Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.
13. Isaiah 16:2
    Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:
14. Isaiah 16:3Referred to, not named
    “Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.
15. Isaiah 16:4
    Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,
16. Isaiah 16:6
    We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.
17. Isaiah 16:7
    Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.
18. Isaiah 16:11
    Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.
19. Isaiah 16:12
    When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
20. Isaiah 16:13
    This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.
21. Isaiah 16:14
    And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”
22. Isaiah 25:10
    For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
23. Isaiah 25:11Referred to, not named
    He will spread out his hands within it, as a swimmer spreads his arms to swim. His pride will be brought low, despite the skill of his hands.
24. Isaiah 25:12Referred to, not named
    The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.
25. Jeremiah 9:26
    Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”
26. Jeremiah 25:21
    Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;
27. Jeremiah 27:3
    Send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
28. Jeremiah 40:11
    When all the Jews in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and all the other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over them,
29. Jeremiah 48:1
    Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled.
30. Jeremiah 48:2
    There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
31. Jeremiah 48:4
    Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.
32. Jeremiah 48:6Referred to, not named
    ‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’
33. Jeremiah 48:7Referred to, not named
    Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.
34. Jeremiah 48:9
    Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.
35. Jeremiah 48:11
    Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.
36. Jeremiah 48:12Referred to, not named
    Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.
37. Jeremiah 48:13
    Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.
38. Jeremiah 48:14Referred to, not named
    How can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?
39. Jeremiah 48:15
    Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
40. Jeremiah 48:16
    Moab’s calamity is at hand, and his affliction is rushing swiftly.
41. Jeremiah 48:17Referred to, not named
    Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!
42. Jeremiah 48:18
    Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.
43. Jeremiah 48:20
    Moab is put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.
44. Jeremiah 48:24
    …upon Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the towns of Moab, those far and near.
45. Jeremiah 48:25
    The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD.
46. Jeremiah 48:26
    “Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.
47. Jeremiah 48:27Referred to, not named
    Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.
48. Jeremiah 48:28
    Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
49. Jeremiah 48:29
    We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his proud arrogance and haughtiness of heart.
50. Jeremiah 48:30Referred to, not named
    I know his insolence,” declares the LORD, “but it is futile. His boasting is as empty as his deeds.
51. Jeremiah 48:31
    Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
52. Jeremiah 48:33
    Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.
53. Jeremiah 48:35
    In Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.
54. Jeremiah 48:36
    Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished.
55. Jeremiah 48:38
    On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.
56. Jeremiah 48:39
    “How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”
57. Jeremiah 48:40
    For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.
58. Jeremiah 48:41
    Kirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
59. Jeremiah 48:42
    Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.
60. Jeremiah 48:43
    Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of Moab,” declares the LORD.
61. Jeremiah 48:44
    “Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
62. Jeremiah 48:45
    “Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.
63. Jeremiah 48:46
    Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; for your sons have been taken into exile and your daughters have gone into captivity.
64. Jeremiah 48:47
    Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.
65. Ezekiel 25:8
    This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”
66. Ezekiel 25:9
    …therefore I will indeed expose the flank of Moab beginning with its frontier cities—Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim—the glory of the land.
67. Ezekiel 25:10Referred to, not named
    I will give it along with the Ammonites as a possession to the people of the East, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.
68. Ezekiel 25:11
    So I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD.’
69. Daniel 11:41
    He will also invade the Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall. But these will be delivered from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the leaders of the Ammonites.
70. Amos 2:1
    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.
71. Amos 2:2
    So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ram’s horn.
72. Amos 2:3Referred to, not named
    I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him,” says the LORD.
73. Micah 6:5
    My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”
74. Zephaniah 2:8
    “I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
75. Zephaniah 2:9
    Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
76. Zephaniah 2:10Referred to, not named
    This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.
77. Zephaniah 2:11Referred to, not named
    The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.