Bible Cross References
Moab
Numbers 24:17
I will point to Him, but not now; I bless Him, but He draws not near: a Star shall arise out of Jacob, a Man shall spring forth out of Israel; and shall crush the princes of Moab, and shall spoil all the sons of Seth.
Psalm 83:4-8
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They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
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For they have taken counsel together with one consent; they have made a confederacy against You;
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even the tents of the Edomites, and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
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Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.
8
Yea, Assyria too has come with them; they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.
Isaiah 15:1-16
1
The word against the land of Moab. By night the land of Moab shall be destroyed; for by night the wall of the land of Moab shall be destroyed.
2
Grieve for yourselves; for even Dibon, where your altar is, shall be destroyed; there shall you go up to weep, over Nebo of the land of Moab; howl; baldness shall be on every head, [and] all arms [shall be] wounded.
3
Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her streets; and lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl, all of you, with weeping.
4
For Heshbon and Elealeh have cried; their voice was heard to Jahaz; therefore the loins of the region of Moab cry aloud; her soul shall know.
5
The heart of the region of Moab cries within her to Segor; for it is [as] a heifer of three years old; and on the Ascent of Luith they shall go up to you weeping by the way of Aroniim; she cries, Destruction, and trembling.
6
The water of Nimrim shall be desolate, and its grass shall fail; for there shall be no green grass.
7
Shall [Moab] even thus be delivered? For I [will] bring the Arabians upon the valley, and they shall take it.
8
For the cry has reached the border of the region of Moab, [even] of Eglaim; and her howling [has gone] as far as the Well of Elim.
9
And the water of Dimon shall be filled with blood; for I will bring Arabians upon Dimon, and I will take away the seed of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Adamah.
Isaiah 25:10
God will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moab shall be trodden down, as they tread the floor with wagons.
Jeremiah 25:21
and Edom, and the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon,
Jeremiah 48:1-47
1
Thus Says the Lord concerning Moab: Woe to Nebo! For it has perished. Kirjathaim is taken; Amath and Agath are put to shame.
2
There is no longer any healing for Moab, [nor] glorying in Hesbron. He has devised evils against her. We have cut her off from [being] a nation, and she shall be completely still. After you shall go a sword;
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for [there is] a voice of [men] crying out of Horonaim, destruction and great ruin.
4
Moab is ruined, proclaim [it] to Zogora:
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for Aloth is filled with weeping; one shall go up weeping by the way of Horonaim; you have heard a cry of destruction.
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Flee, and save your lives, and you shall be as a wild donkey in the desert.
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Since you have trusted in your stronghold, therefore you shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, and his priests, and his princes together.
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And destruction shall come upon every city, it shall by no means escape. The valley also shall perish, and the plain country shall be completely destroyed, as the Lord has said.
9
Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be hit with a plague, and all her cities shall become desolate; where [shall there be] an inhabitant for her?
10
Cursed is the man that does the works of the Lord carelessly, keeping back his sword from blood.
11
Moab has been at ease from a child, and trusted in his glory; he has not poured out [his liquor] from vessel to vessel, and has not gone into banishment, therefore his taste remained in him, and his smell departed not.
12
Therefore behold, his days are coming, says the Lord, when I shall send upon him bad leaders, and they shall lead him astray, and they shall utterly break in pieces his possessions, and shall cut off his horns.
13
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their hope, having trusted in them.
14
How will you say, We are strong, and men strong for war?
15
Moab is ruined, [even] his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.
16
The day of Moab is near at hand, and his iniquity moves swiftly [to vengeance].
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Shake [the head] at him, all you that are round about him; all [of you] utter his name. Say, How is the glorious staff broken to pieces, the rod of magnificence!
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Come down from [your] glory, and sit down in a damp place. Dibon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed. There has gone up against you one to ravage your stronghold.
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Stand by the way, and look, you that dwell in Aroer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened?
20
Moab is put to shame, because he is broken. Howl and cry, proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished.
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And judgment is coming against the land of Misor, upon Chelon, and Rephas, and Mophas,
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and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth Diblathaim,
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and upon Kirjathaim, and upon Beth Gamul, and upon Beth Meon,
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and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of Moab, far and near.
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The horn of Moab is broken, and his arm is crushed.
26
Make him drunk; for he has magnified himself against the Lord. And Moab shall clap with his hand, and shall be also himself a laughing stock.
27
For surely Israel was to you a laughing stock, and was found among your thefts, because you fought against him.
28
The inhabitants of Moab have left the cities, and dwelt in rocks; they have become as doves nestling in rocks, at the mouth of a cave.
29
And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.
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But I know his works. Is it not enough for him? Has he not done thus?
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Therefore howl for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men [in] a gloomy place. I will weep for you,
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O vine of Sibma, as with the weeping of Jazer. Your branches are gone over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer; destruction has come upon your fruits, [and] upon your grape gatherers.
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Joy and gladness have been utterly swept off the land of Moab; and [though] there was wine in your presses, in the morning they trod it not, neither in the evening did they raise the cry of joy.
34
From the cry of Heshbron even to Elealeh their cities uttered their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, and their tidings [as] a heifer of three years old, for the water also of Nimrim shall be dried up.
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And I will destroy Moab, says the Lord, as he comes up to the altar, and burns incense to his gods.
36
Therefore the heart of Moab shall sound as pipes, My heart shall sound as a pipe for the shorn men; forasmuch as what [every] man has gained has perished from him.
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They shall all have their heads shaved in every place, and every beard shall be shaved; and all hands shall beat [their breasts], and on all loins shall be sackcloth.
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And on all the housetops of Moab, and in his streets [shall be mourining]; for I have broken [him], says the Lord, as a vessel, which is useless.
39
How has he changed! How has Moab turned [his] back! Moab is put to shame, and become a laughing stock, and an object of anger to all that are round about him.
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For thus said the Lord:
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Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds have been taken together.
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And Moab shall perish from being a multitude, because he has magnified himself against the Lord.
43
A snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon you, O inhabitant of Moab.
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He that flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he that comes up out of the pit shall even be taken in the snare; for I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their visitation.
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[This translation omits this verse.]
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[This translation omits this verse.]
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[This translation omits this verse.]
Amos 2:1-3
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Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from it, because they burnt the bones of the king of Edom to lime.
2
But I will send forth a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the foundations of its cities, and Moab shall perish in weakness, with a shout, and with the sound of a trumpet.
3
And I will destroy the judge out of her, and slay all her princes with him, says the Lord.
Zephaniah 2:8-11
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I have heard the revilings of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reviled My people, and magnified themselves against My coasts.
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Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah; and Damascus [shall be] left as a heap of the threshing floor, and desolate forever: and the remnant of My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My nations shall inherit them.
10
This is their punishment in return for their haughtiness, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the Lord Almighty.
11
The Lord shall appear against them, and shall utterly destroy all the gods of the nations of the earth; and they shall worship Him everyone from his place, [even] all the islands of the nations.
Seir
Ezekiel 25:12-14
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Thus says the Lord: Because of what the Edomites have done in taking vengeance on the house of Judah, and [because they] have remembered injuries, and have exacted full recompense;
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therefore thus says the Lord: I will also stretch out My hand upon Edom, and will utterly destroy out of it [both] man and beast, and I will make it desolate; and they that are pursued out of Teman shall fall by the sword.
14
And I will execute My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel; and they shall deal in Edom according to My anger and according to My wrath, and they shall know My vengeance, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 35:1-15
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2
Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3
and say to it, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a waste, and you shall be made desolate.
4
And I will cause desolation in your cities, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
5
Because you have been a perpetual enemy, and have lied in wait craftily for the house of Israel, with the hand of enemies with a sword, in the time of injustice, at the last:
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Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, verily you have sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
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And I will make Mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off of it [both] men and cattle;
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and I will fill your hills and your valleys with the slain, and in all your plains there shall fall in you men slain with the sword.
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I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited anymore; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
10
Because you said, The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I shall inherit them; whereas the Lord is there.
11
Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord, I will even deal with you according to your enmity, and I will be made known to you when I shall judge you;
12
and you shall know that I am the Lord. I have heard the voice of your blasphemies, whereas you have said, The desert mountains of Israel are given to us for food;
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and you have spoken swelling words against Me with your mouth: I have heard [them].
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Thus says the Lord: When all the earth is rejoicing, I will make you desolate.
15
You shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all of Edom; and it shall be utterly consumed; and you shall know that I am the Lord their God.
Deuteronomy 2:5
Do not engage in war against them, for I will not give you of their land even enough to set your foot upon, for I have given Mount Seir to the children of Esau as an inheritance.
Isaiah 34:1-17
1
Draw near, you nations; and hearken, you princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people therein.
2
For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and [His] anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.
3
And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their stench shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.
4
And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll; and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig tree.
5
My sword has been made drunk in heaven; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.
6
The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams; for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in Edom.
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And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.
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For it is the day of judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompense of Zion in judgment.
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And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;
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and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up; it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,
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and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it; and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it.
12
Her princes shall be no more, for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.
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And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strongholds; and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court of ostriches.
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And demons shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other; there shall the satyrs rest, having found for themselves [a place of] rest.
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There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young; there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.
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They passed by in [full] number, and not one of them perished; they sought not one another; for the Lord commanded them, and His Spirit gathered them.
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And He shall cast lots for them, and His hand has portioned out [their] pasture, [saying], You shall inherit [the land] forever; they shall rest on it [throughout] all generations.
Isaiah 63:1-6
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Who is this that has come from Edom, [with] red garments from Bosor? Thus fair in his apparel, with mighty strength? I speak of righteousness and saving judgment.
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Why are your garments red, and your clothing as [if fresh] from a trodden winepress?
3
I am full of trodden [grapes], and of the nations there is not a man with Me; and I trampled them in My fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.
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For the day of recompense has come upon them, and the year of redemption is at hand.
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And I looked, and there was no helper; and I observed, and none upheld; therefore My arm delivered them, and My anger drew near.
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And I trampled them in My anger, and brought down their blood to the earth.
Jeremiah 27:3
and you shall send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the children of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hands of their messengers that come to meet them at Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
Jeremiah 49:7-22
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Concerning Edom, thus says the Lord: There is no longer wisdom in Teman, counsel has perished from the wise ones, their wisdom is gone,
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their place has been deceived. Dig deep for a dwelling, you that inhabit Dedan, for he has wrought grievously. I have brought trouble upon him in the time at which I visited him.
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For grape gatherers have come, who shall not leave to you a remnant; as thieves by night, they shall lay their hand upon [your possessions].
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For I have stripped Esau, I have uncovered their secret places; they shall have no power to hide themselves, they have perished, [each] by the hand of his brother, My neighbor, and it is impossible
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for your fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in Me.
12
For thus says the Lord: They who were not appointed to drink the cup have drunk; and you shall by no means be cleared.
13
For by Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, that you shall be in the midst of her an impassable [land], and a reproach, and a curse; and all her cities shall be deserted forever.
14
I have heard a report from the Lord, and He has sent messengers to the nations, [saying,] Assemble yourselves, and come against her; rise up to war.
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I have made you small among the nations, utterly contemptible among men.
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Your insolence has risen up against you, the fierceness of your heart has burst the holes of the rocks, it has seized upon the strength of a lofty hill; for as an eagle he set his nest on high; from there will I bring you down.
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And Edom shall be a desert; everyone that passes by shall hiss at it.
18
As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, and they that sojourned in her, says the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man inhabit there.
19
Behold, he shall come up as a lion out of the midst of the Jordan to the place of Etham; for I will speedily drive them from it, and I will set the young men against her; for who is like Me? And who will withstand Me? And who [is] this shepherd, who shall confront Me?
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Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord which He has framed against Edom, and his device, which he has devised against the inhabitants of Teman: surely the least of the sheep shall be swept off; surely their dwelling shall be made desolate for them.
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For at the sound of their fall the earth was scared, and the cry of the sea was not heard.
22
Behold, He shall look [upon her] as an eagle, and spread forth [His] wings over her strongholds; and the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be in that day as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Amos 2:11
And I took of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for consecration. Are not these things so, you sons of Israel? Says the Lord.
Amos 2:12
But you gave the consecrated ones wine to drink, and you commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Obadiah 1:1-9
1
The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God to Edom; I have heard a report from the Lord, and He has sent forth a message to the nations.
2
Arise, and let us rise up against her to war.
3
Behold, I have made you small among the Gentiles: you are greatly dishonored. The pride of your heart has elated you, dwelling [as you do] in the holes of the rocks, [as one that] exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?
4
If you should mount up as the eagle, and if you should make your nest among the stars, from there will I bring you down, says the Lord.
5
If thieves came in to you, or robbers by night, where would you have been cast away? Would they not have stolen just enough for themselves? And if grape-gatherers went in to you, would they not leave a gleaning?
6
How has Esau been searched out, and how have his hidden things been detected?
7
They sent you to your coasts: all the men of your covenant have withstood you; your allies have prevailed against you, they have set snares under you: they have no understanding.
8
In that day, says the Lord, I will destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau.
9
And your warriors from Teman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.
the house
Isaiah 10:9-11
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then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes, where the tower was built? And have I [not] taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria?
10
As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms; howl, you idols in Jerusalem, and in Samaria.
11
For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I also do to Jerusalem and her idols.
Isaiah 36:18-20
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Let not Hezekiah deceive you, saying, God will deliver you. Have the gods of the nations delivered each one his own land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?
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Where is the god of Hamath, and Arpad? And where is the god of Sepharvaim? Have they been able to deliver Samaria out of my hand?
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Which is the god of all these nations that has delivered his land out of my hand, that God should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?