Moabites
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the Moabites · al-Mūʼābiyyūn · الموابيون
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1 expressionthe Moabites1 mention
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ (Arabic)
Third — that the modes of the Arabs' worship of Hubal resemble the modes of the Moabites' worship of Habaʻl.
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.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The Transjordanian people whose worship of Baal, in its rites and its pre-eminence, Zaydan matches point for point with the Arab worship of Hubal.
Third — that the modes of the Arabs' worship of Hubal resemble the modes of the Moabites' worship of Habaʻl.
It appears that when the aforesaid ʻAmr came to Moab, the Moabites' worship of this idol pleased him — for they used to seek rain and seek victory of it — and he carried it to Mecca under its Hebrew name “Habaʻl.
First — the Arabs' own saying that it came to them from Moab in the land of al-Balqāʼ, brought to them by the ʻAmr ibn Luḥayy we have mentioned.
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.