Editing Moab (section)

===Boundaries in the Hebrew Bible===
In {{bibleverse||Ezekiel|25:9|HE}} the boundaries are given as being marked by [[Beth-jeshimoth]] (north), [[Baal-meon]] (east), and [[Kiriathaim]] (south). That these limits were not fixed, however, is plain from the lists of cities given in {{bibleverse||Isaiah|15–16|HE}} and [[Jeremiah]] {{Bibleverse||Jeremiah|48|1000|48}}, where [[Heshbon]], [[Elealeh]], and [[Jazer]] are mentioned to the north of Beth-jeshimoth; [[Madaba]], [[Beth-gamul]], and [[Mephaath]] to the east of [[Baalmeon]]; and [[Dibon]], [[Aroer]], [[Bezer]], [[Jahaz]], and [[Kirhareseth]] to the south of Kiriathaim. The principal rivers of Moab mentioned in the [[Bible]] are the [[Arnon (western Jordan)|Arnon]], the [[Dibon]] or Dimon,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lcckAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA68 p. 68]</ref> and the [[Nimrim]]. In the north are a number of long, deep [[ravine]]s, and [[Mount Nebo (Jordan)|Mount Nebo]], famous as the scene of the death of [[Moses]] ([[Deuteronomy]] {{Bibleverse|Deuteronomy|34:1–8|HE|34:1–8}}).

The territory occupied by Moab at the period of its greatest extent, before the invasion of the [[Amorites]], divided itself naturally into three distinct and independent portions: the enclosed corner or canton south of the Arnon, referred to in the Bible as "field of Moab" ([[Book of Ruth|Ruth]] {{Bibleverse||Ruth|1:1,2,6|1000|1:1,2,6}}). The more open [[rolling hills (geology)|rolling country]] north of the Arnon, opposite [[Tell es-Sultan|Jericho]] and up to the hills of [[Gilead#Hebrew Bible|Gilead]], called the "land of Moab" ([[Deuteronomy]] {{Bibleverse||Deut|1:5; 32:49|1000|1:5; 32:49}}) and the district below [[sea level]] in the tropical depths of the [[Jordan valley]] ([[Book of Numbers|Numbers]] {{Bibleverse||Num|22:1|1000|22:1}}).