“We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.”
'So their posterity is lost from Heshbon to Dibon, and we laid waste as far as Nophah, which extends to Medeba' — the final verse of the poem lists towns: Heshbon, Dibon, Nophah, Medeba. The destruction is total; Moab's population ('posterity,' from the 'sons' and 'daughters' of verse 29) is decimated. The poem preserves a record of territorial transformation; Amorite conquest erased Moab's northern territories.
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