Sheth ha-Moab

• Preferred Name: Sheth ha-Moab
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: G399-L5G
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Roi de Moab
  
• Death: Y
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Sheth : possibly not an individual's name at all.
  c.1300 BC
  Moab has friendly ties with Egypt, as witnessed by the building of a series of border fortresses as the latter seeks to control the Sinai. The fortresses also provide Moab with some protection and help to defend Egypt's trade route to Damas, which passes through Moab at this time.
  1286/1258 BC
  Ramses II of Egypt reaches a stalemate with the Hittites at the Battle of Kadesh, after which the earliest known peace treaty is signed in 1258 BC. Ramses limits his control to southern Palestine, where he draws a firm and fortified boundary. He is also known during his reign as the oppressor of the Israelites, possibly the unnamed pharaoh of the Old Testament. Whether the well-known story of the Israelite exodus from Egypt occurs at this point in time is still unproven and highly debatable. A statue erected at Luxor by Ramses II lists Mu'ab as one of a series of states conquered by him during a campaign, usually assumed to be Moab.

1. Zippor ben Sheth ha-Moab,     d. ABT 1275 BC in Dibon, Kingdom of Moab, Jordan