Extinct Semitic language.
1 The Moabite seer talks like a Hellenistic apologist of the second century B.C.E.
2 They form two well-marked varieties, the Moabite and the Sidonian.
3 Dan's wife was Elflalet, a daughter of the Moabite Hamudan.
4 Ruth was a heathen woman-a Moabite - araceten times accursed.
5 The conquerors settled in them, and a mixed Israelitish and Moabite population was the result.
6 At the same time, Midianitish supremacy did not mean the destruction of the Moabite kingdom.
7 The daughter of the Moabite king, he insisted, was a more suitable match for him.
8 For ten years she lived in that land, and there her sons married Moabite girls.
9 They married Moabite women, named Orpah and Ruth.
10 But I do not understand how that illiterate man could have written in the difficult Moabite script.
11 In Numbers, chapter 25, many of the Israelites were lured by Moabite women to sacrifice to Baal.
12 If a single Moabite is caught in the land of Midian, he is killed without mercy, and a
13 Rabbath-Ammon could not now hold out any longer, and the Ammonites shared the fate of their Moabite brethren.
14 They assembled their troops, which were reinforced by Syrian, Moabite , and Ammonite contingents, and laid siege to Jerusalem.
15 Possibly the Moabite prince was not ill pleased to befriend the enemy of his own enemy, the King of Israel.
16 It is written from right to left, like the Phoenician, Hebrew, and Moabite , as well as the earliest Greek, inscriptions.
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