children. This nation would fall and her people be exiled. 6. Moab, sandwiched between Ammon and Edom, was guilty of the desecration of the dead. The Moabites cremated the exhumed corpse of an Edomite king and ground his bones for use as mortar for building (2:1–3). They too were descendants of Lot. For their barbarism, of which this was no doubt only the tip of the iceberg, they would be destroyed. The church of the Old Testament was the nation of Israel, although