Moab (son of Lot)
Moab (Hebrew: מואב, Mōʼāḇ; Greek: Μωάβ, Moāb; Arabic: مؤاب, Mūʼāḇ; Assyrian: Mu'aba, Ma'ba, Ma'ab; Egyptian: Mu'ab; "Name means::seed of father") was the son of Abraham's nephew Lot by his elder daughter, while Ammon was Moab's half-brother by a similar union of Lot with his younger daughter.
Genealogy
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| Lot | Milcah | Nahor | Sarah | Abraham | Hagar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Main article: Moab
The close ethnological affinity of Moab and Ammon which is thus attested is confirmed by their subsequent history, while their kinship with the Israelites is equally certain, and is borne out by the linguistic evidence of the Mesha Stele, or Moabite Stone. The Moabites were pastoral nomads settling in the trans-Jordanian highlands. They may have been among the raiders referred to as Habiru in the Amarna letters. Whether they were among the nations referred to in the Egyptian language as Shutu or Shasu is a matter of some debate among scholars. The existence of Moab prior to the rise of the Israelite polity has been deduced from the colossal statues erected at Luxor by Pharaoh Ramesses II. On the base of the second statue in front of the northern pylon of Ramesses' temple, Mu'ab is listed among a series of nations conquered by the Pharaoh.
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