When Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

This is an easy task for the Lord; ¹  he will also hand Moab over to you.

This is the message the Lord previously announced about Moab.

all the people of Edom, ¹  Moab, ²  Ammon; ³ 

Moab’s destruction is at hand. Disaster will come on it quickly.

Moab’s might will be crushed. Its power will be broken. ¹  I, the Lord, affirm it! ² 

I will put an end in Moab to those who make offerings at her places of worship. ¹  I will put an end to those who sacrifice to other gods. I, the Lord, affirm it! ² 

Moab will be destroyed and no longer be a nation, ¹  because she has vaunted herself against the Lord.

Terror, pits, and traps ¹  are in store for the people who live in Moab. ²  I, the Lord, affirm it! ³ 

I will execute judgments against Moab. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

Then the chiefs of Edom will be terrified, ¹  trembling will seize ²  the leaders of Moab, and the inhabitants of Canaan will shake.

Then they traveled on from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, ¹  in the wilderness that is before Moab, on the eastern side. ² 

and the slope of the valleys ¹  that extends to the dwelling of Ar, ²  and falls off at the border of Moab.”

and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, near the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the wilderness. ¹ 

¹ The Israelites traveled on ²  and camped in the plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan River ³  across from Jericho. ⁴ 

Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent a message to me, saying,

So the princes of Moab departed ¹  and went back to Balak and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.

So he returned to him, and he was still ¹  standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.

¹ When ²  Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality ³  with the daughters of Moab.