For example, the Moabites worshipped the god Chemosh, the Edomites, Qaus, both of whom were part of the greater Canaanite pantheon, headed by the chief god, El.

* Arphaxad ( sons were Shelach, Anar and Ashcol )-Chaldeans, Hebrews ( Israelites, Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Ishmaelites, And Qahtanites )

According to archaeologist Jonathan N. Tubb, " Ammonites, Moabites, Israelites and Phoenicians undoubtedly achieved their own cultural identities, and yet ethnically they were all Canaanites " " the same people who settled in farming villages in the region in the 8th millennium BC.

Deuteronomy 23: 3 – 6 summarises these incidents, and further states that the Ammonites were associated with the Moabites.

Most of the Moabites were polytheists like the other early Semites, and the Book of Numbers says that they induced the Israelites to join in their sacrifices.

The Moabites were likely settling in the Transjordanian highlands.

According to Genesis, the Moabites were related to the Israelites, with both peoples tracing their descent back to a common ancestor, Terah, who is named as the father of Abraham and Haran, and Haran being the father of Lot.

The Moabites were friendly with the Egyptians, having kinship ties with them through Joseph.

The Moabites first inhabited the rich highlands at the eastern side of the chasm of the Dead Sea, extending as far north as the mountain of Gilead, from which country they expelled the Emim, the original inhabitants, but they themselves were afterward driven southward by warlike tribes of Amorites, who had crossed the river Jordan.

After the destruction of the First Temple, the knowledge of which people belonged to which nation was lost and the Moabites were treated the same as other gentiles.

* King Jehoshaphat proclaimed a fast throughout Judah for victory over the Moabites and Ammonites who were attacking them ( 2 Chronicles ).

However, other tribes born to wives, including the firstborn Reuben, were also included on the eastern outskirts, and immediately adjacent to Israel's more traditional enemies at the time of their entry to Canaan, the Moabites and Ammonites ( wars with Aram and Assyria did not begin until over 500 years after the entry to Canaan-I Kings 11: 25, II Kings 15: 19 ).

He concludes that " in reality, the most likely inspiration for the mass execution of Verden was the Bible ", citing the biblical tale of the total extermination of the Amalekites and conquest of the Moabites by David ( after the Moabites were defeated, two out of three are recorded as having been stretched out and killed ).

Lot's children were the Ammonites and Moabites.

5: There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel, of the priest of the Levites, of the holy singers, porters, and ministers of the temple, unto Jerusalem, [...] 68: Now when these things were done, the rulers came unto me, and said, 69: The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor the pollutions of the Gentiles to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pheresites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.

*: Now 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.

30-38, both the Moabites and the Ammonites were descended from the two sons of Lot ( themselves half-brothers by his two daughters ), Moab and Ben-ammi, which would corroborate the notion that they share a common origin.

Drew stated that African Americans were all Moors and therefore descended from the ancient inhabitants of Moab ( ancient Moabites ), that Islam and its teachings are more beneficial to their earthly salvation, and that their true nature had been withheld from them.

At times said to be allied with the Moabites ( Judg.

It has been associated with the Moabites ( 14th or early 13th – 6th century BC ), as the symbol or symbols appear on what are thought to be Moabite name seals.

The Philistines are subdued, the Moabites to the east pay tribute, along with Hadadezer of Zobah, from whom David takes gold shields and bronze vessels.

" Abraham's nephew Lot is saved from the destruction of Sodom, and through incest with his daughters becomes the ancestor of the Moabites and Ammonites.

The Philistines, while an integral part of the Canaanite milieu, do not seem to have been ethnically homogenous with the Canaanites ; the Hurrians ( who spoke a language isolate ), Hittites ( Indo-European speakers ), as well as the Semitic Aramaeans, Moabites, and Ammonites, are also considered " distinct " from generic Canaanites / Amorites, in scholarship or in tradition ( although in the Biblical Book of Nations, " Heth ", Hittites are a son of Canaan, despite the fact that it has been proven beyond doubt that the Hittites spoke an Indo-European language ).

The scene then abruptly shifts from concerns about Moabites to those about Midianites.

The abrupt change from concerns about the Moabites to the Midianites, and mention of the end of a plague which is never described as starting, is explained by the documentary hypothesis as being down to a change from the JE source to the Priestly source.

There is also the cliff of Ziz, the pass by which the horde of Moabites, Ammonites and Mehunim made their way up from the shores of the Dead Sea to the wilderness of Judah near Tekoa.

The location was never secure from invasion and attacks, since to the south it was exposed to the Moabites, and like the other tribes east of the Jordan was exposed on the north and east to Aram-Damascus and later the Assyrians.

Chemosh (; from ), was the god of the Moabites ( Num.

19, that the Moabites ultimately recovered it from the Israelites.

Some of the area's early residents attempted to change the city's name because in the Christian Bible, Moabites are demeaned as incestuous and idolatrous.

The Israelites, in entering the " promised land ", did not pass through the Moabites, ( Judges 11: 18 ) but conquered Sihon's kingdom and his capital at Heshbon.

*: But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites ; 2: Of the nations concerning which the L < SMALL > ORD </ SMALL > said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

When Moses asked the Amorites for passage and it was refused, Moses attacked the Amorites ( as non-Hebrews, the Israelites had no reservations in attacking them ), presumably weakened by conflict with the Moabites, and defeated them.

The Moabites settled Kerak Governorate with their capital at Kir of Moab ( Kerak ), and the kingdom of Edom settled in southern Jordan and southern Palestine, and their capital was in Bozrah in Tafilah Governorate.

This find indicated that the Moabites worked with inscriptions on bluish basalt stone.

The Moabites occupied a vital place along the King's Highway, the ancient trade route connecting Egypt with Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia.

Egyptians, Edomites, Ammonites, Moabites, and other various proto-Canaanite tribes practiced male circumcision along with the Hebrews.

The Midianites through their apparent religio-political connection with the Moabites are thought to have worshipped a multitude of gods, including Baal-peor and the Queen of Heaven, Ashteroth.

The God of Israel then ordered a daylight execution of all those that had transgressed by fornication and idolatry with the Moabites, with the cooperation of the Moabite leaders.

In the it is identified with Hazazon-tamar, where the Moabites and Ammonites gathered in order to fight Josaphat.

# Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah ( Ezekiel 4: 1 – 24: 27 ) and on the nations ( Ezekiel 25: 1 – 32: 32 ): Yahweh warns of the certain destruction of Jerusalem and the devastation of the nations that have troubled his people, the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites and Philistines, the Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon, and Egypt.