et me see my
desire upon all my enemies. Omri
5. was king of Israel, and he oppressed Moab many days, for Chemosh was
angry with his
6. land. His son followed him, and he also said: I will oppress Moab. In
my days [Chemosh] said:
7. I will see my desire on him and his house, and Israel shall surely
perish for ever. Omri took the land of
8. Medeba (Numb. xxi. 30), and [Israel] dwelt in it during his days and
half the days of his son, altogether forty years. But there dwelt in it
9. Chemosh in my days. I built Baal-Meon (Josh. xiii. 17) and made
therein the reservoirs; I built
10. Kirjathain (Numb, xxxii. 37). The men of Gad dwelt in the land of
Ataroth (Numb, xxxii. 3) from of old, and the king of Israel built there
11. (the town) of Ataroth; but I made war against the town and took it.
And I slew all the [people]
12. of the town, for the pleasure of Chemosh and Moab. I took from
thence the Ariel (champion) of (the god) Doda and tore
13. him before Chemosh in Kerioth (Jer. xlviii. 24). And I placed
therein the men of Sharon and the men
14. of Me-khereth. And Chemosh said unto me: Go, seize Nebo upon Israel;
and
15. I went in the night and fought against it from the break of dawn
till noon; and I took
16. it, and slew all (therein), 7000 men, [boys], women, [girls],
17. and female slaves, and devoted them to Ashtor-Chemosh. And I took
from it the Ariels of Yahveh, and tore them before Chemosh. And the king
of Israel had built
18. Jahaz (Isa. xv. 4), and dwelt in it, whilst he waged war against me,
(but) Chemosh drove him out before me. And
19. I brought from Moab 200 men, all chiefs, and carried them to Jahaz,
which I took
20. to add to it Dibon. I built Korkhah, the wall of the forests and the
wall
21. of the citadel: I built its gates and I built its towers. And
22. I built the temple of Moloch, and I made sluices of the
water-ditches in the middle
23. of the town. And there was no cistern in the middle of the town of
Korkhah, and I said to all the people: Make for
24. yourselves every man a cistern in his house. And I dug the canals
for Korkhah by means of the prisoners
25. of Israel. I built Aroer and I made the road in [the province of]
the Arnon. [And]
26. I built Beth-Bamoth, for it was destroyed. I built Bezer (Deut. iv.
43), for [it was] in ruins.
27. [And all the chiefs] of Dibou were fifty, for all Dibon was subject
(to me); and I placed
28. 100 [chiefs]
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