Ezekiel 25:8

"Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the nations; therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim, unto the children of the east, to go against the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations: and I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am Jehovah."

PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB

Some seem surprised that the prophecy against Ammon spills over into these words regarding Moab; but, in view of the long association of the two wicked peoples, and their common enmity against God and the children of Israel, it is not at all inappropriate that their judgments should have occurred simultaneously. The long hatred on the part of Moab came to a crisis in the later chapters of Numbers, where the evil prophet Balaam cooperated with Balak, king of Moab, in their devices against Israel. It was finally the "daughters of Moab" who seduced practically the whole nation of Israel, including a thousand of its leaders in the shameful orgy of Numbers 25 at Baal-Peor.

"Not long after Ezekiel wrote this, both Ammon and Moab were overran by Nabatean tribesmen and ceased to have any independent existence as nations."[5]

Bruce, on the testimony of Josephus, fixed the date of Nebuchadnezzar's conquest of Moab and Ammon in 583 B.C.[6]

As a further corroboration of the view expressed above that the heathen nations all thought that the ruin of Israel was the end of Jehovah's power, we cite the inscription on the Moabite Stone, "Which quotes the boast of the king of Moab that his god Chemosh had vanquished Israel."[7] This was precisely the development that called forth these prophecies from Jehovah and resulted in the execution of God's wrath upon all the pagan nations of antiquity. Such actions alone could have preserved and perpetuated the knowledge of God's integrity.