Bible Verses About Moabites: Are a snare to the Israelites

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,

who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.

So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them.

who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,

King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

Shaharaim had sons in the country of Moab after he had divorced his wives Hushim and Baara.

After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.