Moabites
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the Moabites
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
People named in the chain of conquest transferring land ownership.
Upon this principle among others, Jephthah defends himself against the Ammonites, because by the laws of war they had lost the land, which they claimed, in the same manner, as another part had been transferred from the Moabites to the Amorites, and from the Amorites to the Hebrews.
Adversus Marcionem
A people whose idols Solomon turned to, contributing to his rejection by God.
Solomon is rejected, but when already possessed by strange women and made over to the idols of the Moabites and Sidonians.