{"id":8589,"date":"2007-02-13T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=8589"},"modified":"2019-08-29T22:02:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T03:02:34","slug":"the-moabites-and-amorites-refer-to-which-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-moabites-and-amorites-refer-to-which-country\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moabites and Amorites refer to which country?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>The Moabites and Amorites refer to which countries?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>The Moabites are citizens of Moab and the Amorites were citizens of Amor.<\/p>\n<p>Moab was a country at the southeast corner of Israel on the east side of the Dead Sea. Moab was a son of Lot, Abraham&#8217;s nephew (Genesis 19:36-38). Amor was one of the seven nations occupying Canaan before Israel conquered the country (Genesis 15:18-21). Amor was a son of Canaan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: The Moabites and Amorites refer to which countries? Answer: The Moabites are citizens of Moab and the Amorites were citizens of Amor. Moab was a country at the southeast corner of Israel on the east side of the Dead Sea. Moab was a son of Lot, Abraham&#8217;s nephew (Genesis 19:36-38). Amor was one of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[223,279],"class_list":["post-8589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-geography","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17569,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-mesha-stele\/","url_meta":{"origin":8589,"position":0},"title":"The Mesha Stele","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton In 1868, a stone monument was found at the ancient site of Dibon, once the capital of Moab. 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