as wives. It appears that because most marriages by abduction would be exogamous (outside the clan), in later usage this idiom came to be used mainly of illegitimate marriages, especially with non-Israelites, whether by kings30 or laymen.31 The present usage fits the latter class.32 Second, these marriages must be interpreted in light of Mosaic prohibitions against marriage with pagans, particularly Deut 7:3–4. The Moabites are not listed with these Canaanite nations, but since they were the people