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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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