The Moabites are a people descended from Moab, one of Lot's two sons. (The other son was Ammon, whose descendants are the Ammonites.) ### Ancestor When Abraham's nephew Lot escaped from Sodom with his two daughters, his wife became a pillar of salt, leaving only three family members. Concerned that they would not be able to marry and have descendants, Lot's two daughters, in turn, made their father Lot drunk and lay with him, bearing children. These children were Moab and Ammon.
Genesis 19:30The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.Genesis 19:31Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”Genesis 19:32They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.Genesis 19:33It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”Genesis 19:34They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.Genesis 19:35Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.Genesis 19:36The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.Genesis 19:37The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.Genesis 19:38The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
이들의 거주지역은 암몬 족속의 땅 남쪽, 에돔 족속의 북쪽이었으며 사해의 동편에 있는 고지대였다.
시조가 아브라함의 조카 롯으로부터 시작되다보니, 히브리 백성의 형제 관계로 인식되었다.
Deuteronomy 2:16Yahweh spoke to me, saying,Deuteronomy 2:17“You are to pass over Ar, the border of Moab, today.Deuteronomy 2:18When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.”Deuteronomy 2:19(That also is considered a land of Rephaim). Rephaim lived there in the past, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
하지만 그럼에도, 이들은 브올의 아들 발람에게 뇌물을 주어 이스라엘 백성들을 저주하게 하였고, 그로 인하여 10대까지 여호화의 총회에 들어오는 것이 허락되지 않았다.
Deuteronomy 23:4Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
하나님께서 친히 개입하셔서 발람의 저주를 축복으로 바꾸게 하셔서 이러한 모압의 계책은 실패하게 되었지만(발람 항목 참조), 이들은 다시금 이스라엘 백성들을 음행의 길로 빠지도록 유혹하여 하나님의 징계를 받도록 하였다.
Numbers 25:1for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.Numbers 25:2Israel) joined himself to Baal Peor, and Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.Numbers 25:3Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”
이들은 지속적으로 이스라엘을 괴롭혔다. 사사시대에 이들은 여러차례 이스라엘을 공격하였으며, 사사 에훗에 의해 탈환되기 전까지 여리고를 18년 동안 점령하기도 하였다.
Judges 3:12He gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek to himself; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.Judges 3:13The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.Judges 3:14But when the children of Israel) cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.Judges 3:15Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.Judges 3:16He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.Judges 3:17When Ehud had finished offering the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.Judges 3:18But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood by him left him.Judges 3:19Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.Judges 3:20Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body.Judges 3:21The handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.Judges 3:22Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.Judges 3:23After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet in the upper room.”Judges 3:24They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor.Judges 3:25Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah.Judges 3:26When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led them.Judges 3:27He said to them, “Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn’t allow any man to pass over.Judges 3:28They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valor. No man escaped.Judges 3:29So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years.Judges 3:30After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. He also saved Israel.
메시야의 조상인 룻은 이 모압여인 이며, 이는 메시야의 인류 구원이 유대민족에게만 한정되지 않는 다는 것을 상징한다.
Ruth 1:22So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
다윗은 사울 왕의 핍박이 심해지자 자신의 부모를 모압 왕에게 의탁한다.
1 Samuel 22:1Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.1 Samuel 22:2David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.”1 Samuel 22:3He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.1 Samuel 22:4The prophet Gad said to David), “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.” Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
Isaiah 25:10He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.
Jeremiah 9:26Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”
Jeremiah 25:21and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
Jeremiah 27:3Give them a command to their masters, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “You shall tell your masters:
Ezekiel 25:8therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,Ezekiel 25:9to the children of the east, to go against the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.Ezekiel 25:10I will execute judgments on Moab. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”Ezekiel 25:11“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and taken revenge on them;”
Amos 2:1but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;Amos 2:2and I will cut off the judge from among them, and will kill all its princes with him,” says Yahweh.
Zephaniah 2:8Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.Zephaniah 2:9This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.Zephaniah 2:10Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.Zephaniah 2:11You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.