Quotes About Moab

I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like, Mercury-hot.

Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.

It was obvious to early Jewish interpreters that the word "land" in the Jeremiah passage meant "the land" which was promised to Israel and which was also inhabited by Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon ( Jeremiah 27:3). It was also clear to them, as it is to most modern scholars, that the Jeremiah passage was reading off the pages of Genesis

Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.

But a little warning did come up on Sophia's UI, letting her know that the existence of Moab was in question. Opinions differed as to whether it had been burned off the surface of the world by a nuclear blast twelve years ago.

The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.

Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,

They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness opposite Moab to the east.

even the slopes of the wadis that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”

and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.

Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.

For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnonís heights.

Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.

and Moab was terrified of the people because they were numerous. Indeed, Moab dreaded the Israelites.

The elders of Moab and Midian departed with the fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and relayed to him the words of Balak.

“Spend the night here,” Balaam replied, “and I will give you the answer that the LORD speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

And Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent me this message:

And the princes of Moab arose, returned to Balak, and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

So in the morning Balaam got up, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.

When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite city on the Arnon border, at the edge of his territory.

So he returned to Balak, who was standing there beside his burnt offering, with all the princes of Moab.

And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ëCome,í he said, ëput a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!í