Places of the Bible

Moab

Country

Born here: Orpah, Ruth

What happened here

Subjugation by Eglon · 1377 BC

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Moab, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place. The numbers are the lines below.

1 Wilderness Wanderings · 1490 BC · 1 verse
2 Death of Moses · 1451 BC · 4 verses
3 Dividing the land · 1444 BC · 1 verse
4 Deliverance by Ehud · 1360 BC · 3 verses
5 Oppression by Ammon and Philistia · 1169 BC · 1 verse
6 Deliverance by Jephthah · 1151 BC · 4 verses
7 Reign of Saul · 1094 BC · 4 verses
8 Reign of David · 1054 BC · 3 verses
9 Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 2 verses
10 Prophecies of Elijah · 909 BC · 1 verse
11 Prophecies of Elisha · 896 BC · 3 verses
12 Reign of Joram · 896 BC · 2 verses
13 Prophecies of Amos · 787 BC · 2 verses
14 Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 16 verses
15 Prophecies of Micah · 753 BC · 1 verse
16 Reign of Josiah · 640 BC · 1 verse
17 Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 33 verses
18 Prophecies of Zephaniah · 609 BC · 2 verses
19 Prophecies of Daniel · 605 BC · 1 verse
20 Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 3 verses

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The land of Moab (Jer. 48:24), called also the “country of Moab” (Ruth 1:2, 6; 2:6), on the east of Jordan and the Dead Sea, and south of the Arnon (Num. 21:13, 26). In a wider sense it included the whole region that had been occupied by the Amorites. It bears the modern name of Kerak.

In the Plains of Moab, opposite Jericho (Num. 22:1; 26:63; Josh. 13:32), the children of Israel had their last encampment before they entered the land of Canaan. It was at that time in the possession of the Amorites (Num. 21:22). “Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah,” and “died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord” (Deut. 34:5, 6). “Surely if we had nothing else to interest us in the land of Moab, the fact that it was from the top of Pisgah, its noblest height, this mightiest of the prophets looked out with eye undimmed upon the Promised Land; that it was here on Nebo, its loftiest mountain, that he died his solitary death; that it was here, in the valley over against Beth-peor, he found his mysterious sepulchre, we have enough to enshrine the memory in our hearts.”

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 148 verses

Genesis: 36:35
Exodus: 15:15
Numbers: 21:11, 21:13, 21:15, 21:20, 21:26, 21:28, 21:29, 22:1, 22:3, 22:4, 22:7, 22:8, 22:10, 22:14, 22:21, 22:36, 23:6, 23:7, 23:17, 24:17, 25:1, 26:3, 26:63, 31:12, 33:44, 33:48, 33:49, 33:50, 35:1, 36:13
Deuteronomy: 1:5, 2:8, 2:9, 2:18, 29:1, 32:49, 34:1, 34:5, 34:6, 34:8
Joshua: 13:32, 24:9
Judges: 3:12, 3:14, 3:15, 3:17, 3:30, 10:6, 11:15, 11:17, 11:18, 11:25
Ruth: 1:1, 1:2, 1:6, 1:22, 2:6, 4:3
1 Samuel: 12:9, 14:47, 22:3, 22:4
2 Samuel: 8:2, 8:12, 23:20
1 Kings: 11:7, 11:33
2 Kings: 1:1, 3:4, 3:5, 3:7, 3:10, 3:13, 3:23, 3:26, 23:13
1 Chronicles: 1:46, 4:22, 8:8, 11:22, 18:2, 18:11
2 Chronicles: 20:10, 20:22, 20:23
Nehemiah: 13:23
Psalms: 60:8, 108:9
Isaiah: 11:14, 15:1, 15:2, 15:4, 15:5, 15:8, 15:9, 16:2, 16:4, 16:6, 16:7, 16:11, 16:12, 16:13, 16:14, 25:10
Jeremiah: 9:26, 25:21, 27:3, 40:11, 48:1, 48:2, 48:4, 48:9, 48:11, 48:13, 48:15, 48:16, 48:18, 48:20, 48:24, 48:25, 48:26, 48:28, 48:29, 48:31, 48:33, 48:35, 48:36, 48:38, 48:39, 48:40, 48:41, 48:42, 48:43, 48:44, 48:45, 48:46, 48:47
Ezekiel: 25:8, 25:9, 25:11
Daniel: 11:41
Amos: 2:1, 2:2
Micah: 6:5
Zephaniah: 2:8, 2:9

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.