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Bible Verses About Moabites

This collection includes 50 passages about Moabites. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.

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And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

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There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.

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And 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.

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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.

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Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.

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And 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.

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And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

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And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the Lord.

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And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi–lehem. And these are ancient things.

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On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

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Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

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In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

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This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

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Woe 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.

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And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.

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And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

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And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.

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We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

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And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.

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And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

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We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

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And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

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And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.

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And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:

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And 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.

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It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

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And this is but a light thing in the sight of the Lord: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.

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And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

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Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the Lord. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

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And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

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And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,

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Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

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Thus saith the Lord God; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;

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Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

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And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;

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And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.

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The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

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As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,

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But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

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