A. H. van Zyl has written: 'The Moabites' -- subject(s): Moabites, Histoire
The Moabites worshiped many gods. Their chief god was Chemosh. Sometimes they offered human sacrifices.
The people of Moab.
Moabites
C'mosh (Judges 10:6).
In Deuteronomy 23:3-6, the Israelites were prohibited from marrying Moabites due to historical conflicts and idolatry issues. However, in the book of Ruth, a Moabite woman becomes an ancestor of King David, so attitudes towards intermarriage evolved over time.
Moab, Israel and Judah were three of the small independent West Semitic states to arise around the same time, following the decline of the Canaanite city-states. It may seem surprising that the Israelites and Judahites are now understood by scholars to have been West Semitic (Canaanite) people like the Moabites, but the Moabites never came to be regarded as Jewish. The Bible talks of a common bond between the people of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah, but this bond is not evident with the Moabites.
I know the canaanites looked like Black Afrikan people as they were a Hamitic people (Canaan was the youngest son of Ham). The Moabites from what I can understand, had tan to yellow skin and slanted eyes (Chinese).
There is no group that was displaced by the Assyrian Empire which survived that event. The Northern Israelite Tribes, Arameans, Moabites, and several other groups were displaced but have since disappeared by merging into other ethnic groups.
AnswerIf we go back more than two hundred thousand years, we find common ancestors for all humans. Chinese and Moabites are related by descent from the earliest humans in east Africa, just as Hebrews, Arabs, Celts, Australian Aborigines and African Bantus are.
It's unlikely we can know for sure, but logic would tell us that they were probably white to possibly somewhat dark complected. This is because Moab was a decendent of Lot who was Abraham's nephew. Abraham's family were ultimately decendants of Shem, the son of Noah. The African people were unrelated, since they were the sons of Ham the son of Noah.
Moabites are a clan of people that lived in the region of Moab (land along eastern shore of the Dead Sea) from the early biblical times that were not recognized as followers of God. They worshiped their own gods. Ruth (the person who followed Naomi) was a member of the clan before she renounced her faith to follow the one true God.