Nave’s Topical Bible
Moabites
28 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Descendants of Lot through his son Moab
- Called the people of Chemosh
- The territory east of the Jordan River, bounded on the north by the Arnon River
- The people of Israel commanded not to distress the Moabites
- Refuse passage of Jephthah's army through their territory
- Balak was king of
- Calls for Balaam to curse Israel
- Are a snare to the Israelites
Numbers 25:1-3; Ruth 1:4; 1 Kings 11:1; 1 Chronicles 8:8; Ezra 9:1-2; Nehemiah 13:23
- Land of, not given to the Israelites as a possession
- David takes refuge among, from Saul
- David conquers
2 Samuel 8:2; 2 Samuel 23:20; 1 Chronicles 11:22; 1 Chronicles 18:2-11
- Israelites had war with
2 Kings 3:5-27; 2 Kings 13:20; 2 Kings 24:2; 2 Chronicles 20
- Prophecies concerning judgments upon
Bible verses about “Moabites”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 19:37And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
- Numbers 21:29Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
- Numbers 21:13From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
- Judges 11:18Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.
- Deuteronomy 2:9And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
- Judges 11:17Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
- Numbers 22:4And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
- Joshua 24:9Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
- Micah 6:5O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord.
- Numbers 25:1And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
- Numbers 25:2And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
- Numbers 25:3And Israel joined himself unto Baal–peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
- Ruth 1:4And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
- 1 Kings 11:1But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
- 1 Chronicles 8:8And Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.
- Ezra 9:1Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
- Ezra 9:2For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
- Nehemiah 13:23In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
- Deuteronomy 2:29(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God giveth us.
- 1 Samuel 22:3And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.
- 1 Samuel 22:4And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
- 2 Samuel 8:2And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.
- 2 Samuel 23:20And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
- 1 Chronicles 11:22Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
- 1 Chronicles 18:2And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.
- 1 Chronicles 18:3And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
- 1 Chronicles 18:4And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots.
- 1 Chronicles 18:5And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
- 1 Chronicles 18:6Then David put garrisons in Syria–damascus; and the Syrians became David’s servants, and brought gifts. Thus the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.
- 1 Chronicles 18:7And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 18:8Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
- 1 Chronicles 18:9Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;
- 1 Chronicles 18:10He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;) and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.
- 1 Chronicles 18:11Them also king David dedicated unto the Lord, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
- 2 Kings 3:5But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
- 2 Kings 3:6And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.
- 2 Kings 3:7And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
- 2 Kings 3:8And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
- 2 Kings 3:9So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days’ journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
- 2 Kings 3:10And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the Lord hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!