1. What is the crime of Moab, for which it will be punished: "he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime."
Not that the king of Edom was such a good guy. We recall that he himself will be destroyed because of how he treated the Jews (1:11-12). But that is no matter. It is apparently wrong to harm anyone in this way, even if you are the instrument of God's vengeance.
2. There will be a war in which someone will conquer Moab and all of the rulers of Moab will die in the battle (they won't even be exiled).
"I will send fire upon Moab, and it will consume the citadels of Kerioth; and Moab will die amid tumult, with war cries and the sound of the trumpet. I will also cut off the judge from her midst, and slay all her princes with him," says the LORD.
Kerioth is a city in Moab, also mentioned by Jeremiah in a prophecy of Moab's destruction: "The disaster of Moab will soon come, and his calamity has swiftly hastened....Judgment has also come...against Kerioth..." (Jeremiah 48:16, 21, 24).
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