Moav

Moav

Culture:"EconomyThe country of Moab was the source of numerous natural resources, including limestone, salt and balsam from the Dead Sea region. The Moabites occupied a vital place along the King's Highway, the ancient trade route connecting Egypt with Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia. Like the Edomites and Ammonites, trade along this route gave them considerable revenue.ReligionReferences to the religion of Moab are scant. Most of the Moabites were polytheists like other early Semites, and the Book of Numbers says that they induced the Israelites to join in their sacrifices.[19] Their chief god was Chemosh,[20] and the Israelites sometimes referred to them as the "people of Chemosh."[21] According to II Kings, at times, especially in dire peril, human sacrifice were offered to Chemosh, as by Mesha, who gave up his son and heir to him.[22] Nevertheless, King Solomon built a "high place" for Chemosh on the hill before Jerusalem,[23] which the Bible describes as "this detestation of Moab". The altar was not destroyed until the reign of Josiah.[24] The Moabite Stone also mentions (line 17) a female counterpart of Chemosh, Ashtar-Chemosh, and a god Nebo (line 14), probably the well-known Babylonian divinity Nabu. The cult of Baal-peor[25] or Peor[26] seems to have been marked by sexual rites, though this may be exaggeration.LanguageLanguageThe Moabite language is an extinct Canaanite language, spoken in Moab (modern day central-western Jordan) in the early first millennium BC. It was written using a variant of the Phoenician alphabet.[29]Most of our knowledge about Moabite comes from the Mesha Stele,[29] which is the only known extensive text in this language. In addition there are the three line El-Kerak Inscription and a few seals. The main features distinguishing Moabite from fellow Canaanite languages such as Hebrew are: a plural in -în rather than -îm (e.g. mlkn "kings" for Biblical Hebrew məlākîm), like Aramaic and Arabic; retention of the feminine ending -at which Biblical Hebrew reduces to -āh (e.g. qryt "town", Biblical Hebrew qiryāh) but retains in the construct state nominal form (e.g.qiryát yisrael "town of Israel"); and retention of a verb form with infixed -t-, also found in Arabic and Akkadian (w-’ltḥm "I began to fight", from the root lḥm.)"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moab

Moav Today:"Sometime during the Persian period Moab disappears from the extant historical record. Its territory was subsequently overrun by waves of tribes from northern Arabia, including the Kedarites and (later) the Nabataeans. In Nehemiah 4:1 the Arabs are mentioned instead of the Moabites as the allies of the Ammonites.[14] Their region, however, continued to be known by its biblical name for some time. For example, when the Crusaders occupied the area, the castle they built to defend the eastern part of the Kingdom of Jerusalem was called Krak des Moabites."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moab "In 1516, Transjordan became part of the Ottoman Empire and remained so until 1918, when the Hashemite Army of the Great Arab Revolt took over and secured the present day Jordan." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan

HistoryLot's daughter named her son Moav (Mai-Av). Moav then settled Mai'Ever HaYarden in the north and was driven south of the Arnon River by the Emorim. In time, there become the kingdom of Moav in that territory in the South East of the Yarden. Moav did not allow Bnai Yisrael to cross through them to enter Eretz Yisrael. Later, the Moavim start up with Bnai Yisrael with King Eglon. King Eglon's daughter now, though, is Rus.

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Moav in Tanach:1. "Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. The firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day." Genesis 19:36-382. At the time of the exodus, the Arnon River was the northern border of the Moabites next to the Amorites: Numbers 21:133. There appears to be a smaller territory called the "Plains of Moab" within Amorite land that included Mt. Nebo and Madaba: Deut 32:494. Moses had requested both Edom and Moab to pass through their land but were refused. Judges 11:14-265. The border between Moab and Edom, was and east west line that ran through Kadesh at Petra. Since Kadesh was right on the borders between Moab and Edom, Bnai Yisrael asked both Moab to pass from Petra north-east and Edom to pass south-east. Both refused. Judges 11:15-186. Ruth was a Moabite woman who married Boaz and became the grandmother of King David. (Sefer Rut)7. Madaba (Madaba Map) and Dibon (Moabite Stone) was part of Moab in 1406 BC: "They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba; Everyone's head is bald and every beard is cut off." Isa 15:2 http://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-moabites.htm

This is what the ancient capital of Moav looks like today!

This is ruins of an Biblican ancient important Moavi city.