Moab consequently sent higher ranking priests and offers Balaam honours, and so God tells Balaam to go with them.

Balak, king of Moab ( Numbers 22: 2 ), consequently becomes alarmed, and sends elders of Midian and his messengers ( Numbers 22: 4-5 ), to Balaam, son of Beor, to induce him to come and curse Israel.

Therefore he sent elders of Moab, and of Midian, to Balaam ( apparently a powerful and respected prophet ), son of Beor ( Bible ), to induce him to come and curse the Israelites.

Balaam refused to speak what God didn't speak and would not curse the Israelites, even though King Balak of Moab offered him money to do so.

Balaam thus, without being asked again, sets out in the morning with the princes of Moab and God becomes angry that he went, and the Angel of the Lord ( Numbers 22: 22 ) is sent to prevent him.

The Moabites were to be excluded from the assembly of worshipers, because: “ They did not come to meet you with food and drink when you were on your way out of Egypt, and even hired Balaam, son of Beor, to oppose you by cursing you .” ( Deuteronomy 23: 3-5 ) The Israelites were allowed to harass Moab, but were forbidden to wage war on them, so they defeated Midian as a result of the advice that Balaam gave that led to a plague in punishment for the worship of idols at Baal Peor.

Balak was a king of Moab described in the Book of Numbers in the Hebrew Bible for his dealings with Balaam.

Having finished his sacrifices, Balaam views the Israelites on the plain below, and although hired to curse them, pronounces a blessing over them, prophesying their blessed nature and destruction of Moab.

There is an inference that after Balaam failed to curse the Israelites directly, he instructed King Balak as to how Moab could persuade the Israelites to curse themselves.

Balaam is described as building altars at several of the high places of Moab, including at Peor, without ever criticising any Moabite religion occurring at those locations, entirely plausible if Balaam was a prophet of a Moabite god.

The first was his uncle Titus, who was blamed for the destruction of the Second Temple ; the second was the seer Balaam, hired by Balak king of Moab to curse Israel ; and the last was Yeshu, a name used for those who sought to lead Jews astray to idolatry, in particular an idolatrous former student of Rabbi Joshua ben Perachiah in the Hasmonean period as well as king Manasseh of Judah.

J skips over chapter 15 and resumes at chapter 16, the story of the rebellion of Dathan and Abiram, which is combined, very badly, with a twin version from P. J provides chapters 21 to 24, covering the story of the bronze serpent, Balaam and his talking ass, and rebellion in Moab, finishing, after skipping some chapters provided by P, with the provision of land to the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Mannasseh.

During Ahab's reign, Moab, which had been conquered by his father, remained tributary ; while Judah, with whose king, Jehoshaphat, he was allied by marriage, was probably his vassal.

At this time Israel was apparently engaged in a three-way contest with Damascus and Tyre for control of the Jezreel Valley and Galilee in the north, and with Moab, Ammon and Damascus in the east for control of Gilead ; the Mesha stele ( c. 830 ), left by a king of Moab, celebrates his success in throwing off the oppression of the " House of Omri " ( i. e. Israel ).

From " the top of Pisgah ," i. e., Mount Nebo, an area which belonged to Moab, Moses surveyed the Promised Land ( Deuteronomy 3: 27 ; 32: 49 ), and there he died ( 34: 1, 5 ).

At Shittim, in the land of Moab, after 24, 000 men were slain for their crime, a second census was taken ; Zabulon numbered 60, 500 fighting men ( Numbers 26: 27 ).

Moab (; Moabite: < big > </ big > Mʾb ; ; Greek Μωάβ Mōav ; Assyrian Mu ' aba, Ma ' ba, Ma ' ab ; Egyptian Mu ' ab ) is the historical name for a mountainous strip of land in Jordan.

Moab may have been under the rule of an Israelite governor during this period ; among the exiles who returned to Judea from Babylonia were a clan descended from Pahath-Moab, whose name means " ruler of Moab ".

A petroglyph of a caravan of bighorn sheep near Moab, Utah, USA ; a common theme in glyphs from the desert southwest

I assaulted the wall and captured it, and killed all the warriors of the city for the well-pleasing of Chemosh and Moab, and I removed from it all the spoil, and offered it before Chemosh in Kirjath ; and I placed therein the men of Siran, and the men of Mochrath.

This pattern consists of apostasy, hardship, crying out to the Lord, and rescue and it is clearly present in the tale of Ehud: apostasy and hardship occur in Judges 3. 12, “ The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord ; and the Lord strengthened King Eglon of Moab against Israel .” The “ crying out to the Lord ” and the subsequent rescue are evident in Judges 3. 15: “ but when the Israelites cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud son of Gera .” The rather lively and humorous tale is ended with the refrain of “ and the land had rest 80 years ,” ( Judges 3. 30 ) an editorially constructed ending typical to Gideon and other “ major ” judge stories in the book of Judges.

In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Lee's Ferry was the only crossing of the Colorado River by ferry between Moab, Utah and Needles, California ; it was heavily used by travelers between Utah and Arizona.

The Prophets mention it in their denunciations of Moab ( Isaiah 15: 4, 16: 8, 9 ; Jeremiah 48: 2, 34, 45 ).

* 1873: The land of Moab ; travels and discoveries on the east side of the Dead sea and the Jordan

: My heart cries out for Moab ;

Drawing of an alcove. Alcove in sandstone, near Moab, Utah. Alcove ( or ; through, from, meaning al -, the, and qubbah, a vault ) is an architectural term for a recess in a room, usually screened off by pillars, balustrades or drapery.

** Order 2002-7-20 ( July 11, 2002 ): extends the interim subsidy rates of Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. at each of the communities listed ( Page, AZ ; Alamosa, CO ; Pueblo, CO ; Ironwood, MI / Ashland, WI ; McCook, NE ; Laramie, WY ; Rock Springs, WY ; Worland, WY ; Moab, UT ; Vernal, UT ).

God Himself buried him in an unknown grave in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor ( Deut.

Mesha tells how Kemosh, the God of Moab, had been angry with his people and had allowed them to be subjugated to Israel, but at length Kemosh returned and assisted Mesha to throw off the yoke of Israel and restore the lands of Moab.

In any case, neither the Mesha inscription nor the Books of Kings were written as objective history, both were intended as propaganda for their respective gods, Kings to glorify Yahweh the God of Israel, and the stele to glorify Mesha and Kemosh the god of Moab.

Christians and Muslims revere Lot as a righteous man of God .< ref > 2Peter 2: 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: < sup > 8 </ sup > ( For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds ;)</ ref > Jesus is a descendent of Lot through David's great-grandmother Ruth, who is descended from Lot's son Moab.

In Deuteronomy, God commanded Moses to climb up and view the Promised Land from Mount Nebo: " Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho.

For example, one of the last events in the Torah is the death of Moses when God himself buries him: " buried him in the depression in the land of Moab, opposite Beth Peor.

The king of Moab gives his firstborn son and heir as a whole burnt offering ( olah, as used of the Temple sacrifice ).

The king of Moab gives his firstborn son and heir as a whole burnt offering ( olah, as used of the Temple sacrifice ).

During a battle with the Israelites the king of Moab gives his firstborn son and heir as a whole burnt offering ( olah, as used of the Temple sacrifice ) ( 2 Kings 3: 27 ).

A local Moab rancher ( George White ) found Ford and persuaded him to come take a look at Moab.

Returning to Heidelberg he became Privatdozent in theology in 1829, and in 1831 published his Begriff der Kritik am Alten Testamente praktisch erörtert, a study of Old Testament criticism in which he explained the critical principles of the grammatico-historical school, and his Des Propheten Jonas Orakel über Moab, an exposition of the 5th and 16th chapters of the book of Isaiah attributed by him to the prophet Jonah mentioned in 2 Kings xiv.

His son succeeded him, and he also said, I will oppress Moab.

And the king of Israel fortified Jahaz, and occupied it, when he made war against me, and Chemosh drove him out before me, and I took from Moab two hundred men in all, and placed them in Jahaz, and took it to annex it to Dibon.

I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.