Editing Moab (section)

===Iron Age===
The 9th century BCE [[Mesha Stele]] recounts that King [[Mesha]] built up an open sanctuary in Qeriho (cultic area of [[Dibon]]), conquered the Israelite territory north of Wadi el-Wale with the cities of [[Medeba]], [[Khirbat Ataruz|Ataroth]] and [[Nebo (biblical town)|Nebo]] as well as [[Jahaz]] (east of Moab) and rebuilt the towns of [[Baal-meon]], Kirjaton, [[Aroer]], Beth-bamoth, [[Bezer]], Medeba, Diblaton and his hometown Dibon.<ref name=":0" />{{rp|488}}

An 8th-century BCE inscription seems to indicate that the Kingdom of Moab expanded into the eastern part of the [[Jordan Valley]] after a successful campaign against the [[Ammon|Ammonites]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=New Moabite inscriptions and their historical relevance |journal=Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages |url=https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/files/94554/94554.pdf |last=Gass |first=Erasmus |issue=1 |volume=38 |pages=45–78 |year=2012 |issn=0259-0131 |hdl=10520/EJC126353}}</ref>

In the [[Nimrud]] clay inscription of [[Tiglath-pileser III]] (r. 745–727 BCE), the Moabite king [[Salmanu]] (perhaps the Shalman who sacked [[Beth-arbel]] in [[Hosea]] {{Bibleverse||Hosea|10:14|1000|10:14}}) is mentioned as tributary to [[Assyria]]. [[Sargon II]] mentions on a [[Sargon II's Prism A|clay prism]] a revolt against him by Moab together with [[Philistia]], [[Kingdom of Judah|Judah]], and [[Edom]]; but on the [[Taylor prism]], which recounts the expedition against [[Hezekiah]], [[Kammusu-Nadbi]] (Chemosh-nadab), King of Moab, brings tribute to Sargon as his suzerain.<ref name=":0" />{{rp|489}}

Musuri, King of Moab, paid too a tribute to [[Assarhaddon]] at the same time as [[Manasseh of Judah]], [[Kaus-gabri|Qosgabar of Edom]] and other kings of the [[Levant]]. They send building materials to [[Nineveh]]. Moab militarily supported [[Assurbanipal]] during his campaign against Egypt and the pharaoh [[Taharqa]]. The status of [[vassal]] of Assyria allows Moab to benefit in return from the support of Assyria against the nomadic tribes of the [[Arabian Desert|Arabian desert]], and in particular against the Qedarites. King [[Kamas-halta]] seemed to have defeated Ammuladi, king of [[Qedar]].<ref>James B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 1969</ref>