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Chapter 2

Moab

Thus says the Lord:

For three crimes of Moab, and now four—
    I will not take it back—
Because he burned to ashes[a]
    the bones of Edom’s king,

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Footnotes

  1. 2:1 He burned to ashes: to the peoples of the Near East, burning the bones of the dead was a particularly heinous crime, as it was believed to cause the spirits of these dead to wander without any hope of interment in their graves, where they could rest in peace.