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The Moabite Stone

In the year 1868 Rev. F. Klein, of the Church Missionary Society at Jerusalem, found at Dhiban (the biblical Dibon), in Moab, a remarkable stone, since called the Moabite Stone. It was lying on the ground, with the inscription uppermost, and measures about 3 feet 9 inches long, 2 feet 4 inches wide and 1 foot 2 inches thick. It is a very heavy, compact black basalt. An impression was made of the main block, and of certain recovered parts broken off by the Arabs. It was broken by the Arabs, but the fragments were purchased by the French government for 32,000 francs, and are in the Louvre in Paris. The engraved face is about the shape of an ordinary gravestone, rounded at the top. On this stone is the record in the Phoenician characters of the wars of Mesha, king of Moab, with Israel. (2 Kings 3:4) It speaks of King Omri and other names of places and persons mentioned in the Bible, and belongs to this exact period of jewish and Moabite history. The names given on the Moabite Stone, engraved by one who knew them in daily life, are, in nearly every case, identical with those found in the Bible itself, and testify to the wonderful integrity with which the Scriptures have been preserved. "The inscription reads like a leaf taken out of a lost book of Chronicles. The expressions are the same; the names of gods, kings and of towns are the same." --(See Rawlinson's "Historical Illustrations;" American Cyclopedia ; and Bibliotheca Sacra , Oct. 20, 1870. --ED.)

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The Nations of the South-East
... it was by the Israelitish tribes. The Moabite Stone has proved this
conclusively. Moabite and Ammonite, Phoenician and Hebrew, were ...
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The Secret of Its Greatness
... It is called 'The Moabite Stone,' and was set up by Mesha, king of Moab. ... [Illustration:
First words of Kin Mesha's writing on the Moabite Stone. ...
/.../duff/the bible in its making/chapter ii the secret of.htm

The Septuagint as a Version.
... belong to the old Semitic alphabet which was common to the Hebrew, Moabite, Aramaic,
and Phoenician languages, and which appears on the Moabite stone and in ...
/.../chapter v the septuagint as.htm

The Christian View of the Old Testament
... Mission of Israel, 60 f. Misuse, 231 f. Moabite Stone, 130 ff. Monotheism, 167 f.,
218 f. Monotheistic tendencies, 167-169. Moral teaching, 259. Moses, 102 f. ...
/.../eiselen/the christian view of the old testament/index 2.htm

The Record of Two Kings
... he built Samaria, and his whole reign is summed up in the damning sentence that
he 'walked in the way of Jeroboam.' We learn from the Moabite stone that he ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/the record of two kings.htm

The Helvetic Consensus Formula. AD 1675.
... This view is confirmed by the absence of vowels on Jewish coins, on the Phoenician
and Punic monuments, on the inscription of the Moabite stone (discovered 1868 ...
/.../ 61 the helvetic consensus.htm

Two Famous Versions of the Scriptures
... Now at this time all the Jews still wrote in the ancient style, forming their letters
as we see them on the Moabite Stone; but not long afterwards they adopted ...
/.../duff/the bible in its making/chapter vii two famous versions.htm

The Old Testament and Archeology
... To the reign of Omri (889-875) and his immediate successors refers the inscription
of Mesha on the so-called Moabite Stone.[12] This notable specimen of ...
/.../the christian view of the old testament/chapter iv the old testament.htm

Index ii.
... metobelus, 70 ff. Minutius Pacatus, 289. Moabite stone, the, 320 f. Mommsen, Th.,
5, 8, 212 f., 347. Montfaucon, B. de, 136. Morinus, J., 182, 436; P., 181 f. ...
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The Bible
... Tyre and Sidon; from the trenches of Tel el Armana; by the key words of the Rosetta
stone and the black but speaking face of the Moabite stone; from newly ...
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