That these limits were not fixed, however, is plain from the lists of cities given in Isaiah 15–16 and Jeremiah 48, where Heshbon, Elealeh, and Jazer are mentioned to the north of Beth-jeshimoth Madaba, Beth-gamul, and Mephaath to the east of Baalmeon and Dibon, Aroer, Bezer, Jahaz, and Kirhareseth to the south of Kiriathaim. In Ezekiel 25:9 the boundaries are given as being marked by Beth-jeshimoth (north), Baal-meon (east), and Kiriathaim (south). In the north are a number of long, deep ravines, and Mount Nebo, famous as the scene of the death of Moses ( Deuteronomy 34:1–8). Moab was located on a plateau about 910 metres (3,000 ft) above the level of the Mediterranean, or 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) above the Dead Sea, rising gradually from north to south. ( November 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. According to the Book of Jasher (24,24), Moab had four sons-Ed, Mayon, Tarsus and Kanvil-and his wife, whose name is not given, is apparently from Canaan. The younger daughter did the same and conceived a son named Ben-ammi, who became ancestor to the Ammonites. The elder got him drunk to facilitate the deed and conceived Moab. She and her sister, having lost their fiancés and their mother in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, decided to continue their father's line through intercourse with their father. Īccording to Genesis 19:30–38, the ancestor of the Moabites was Lot by incest with his eldest daughter. Fritz Hommel regards Moab as an abbreviation of Immo-ab = "his mother is his father". He writes that as a result of the immodesty of Moab's name, God did not command the Israelites to refrain from inflicting pain upon the Moabites in the manner in which he did with regard to the Ammonites. Rashi explains the word Mo'ab to mean "from the father", since ab in Hebrew and Arabic and the rest of the Semitic languages means "father". Other etymologies which have been proposed regard it as a corruption of "seed of a father", or as a participial form from "to desire", thus connoting "the desirable (land)". The earliest gloss is found in the Koine Greek Septuagint ( Genesis 19:37) which explains the name, in obvious allusion to the account of Moab's parentage, as ἐκ τοῦ πατρός μου ("from my father"). The etymology of the word Moab is uncertain. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, and went away again beyond Jordan (River) into the place where John at first baptized: and there he (Jesus) abode.This section needs additional citations for verification. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. Īnd Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost (Spirit) returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil.Īnd they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him. Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.Īnd he (John the Baptist) came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea.
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