Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
- BSB Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.
- NKJV Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, As the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
- NASB And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
- NLT At last Moab will be ashamed of his idol Chemosh, as the people of Israel were ashamed of their gold calf at Bethel.
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Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as Israel was ashamed of the golden calf at Bethel.
Overview
Moab's trust in Chemosh will end in shame, paralleled with Israel's misplaced confidence in the calf-idol at Bethel. Both nations learn the futility of their idols. The comparison warns God's own people that false worship brings the same disgrace, calling all to forsake idols and trust the true God made known in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Isa 45:16They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
- Jer 48:39“How it is broken down! How they wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.”
- Hos 8:5–6Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
- Judg 11:24Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
- 1 Kgs 12:28–29So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
- Amos 5:5–6but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.
- Jer 48:7For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken. Chemosh will go out into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
- Isa 16:12It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.
- Hos 10:14–15Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
- Jer 48:46Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.
- 1 Kgs 18:40Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!” They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
- 1 Sam 5:3–7When the people of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark. They took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
- Isa 2:20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
- Hos 10:5–6The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.
- Isa 46:1–2Bel bows down. Nebo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads, a burden for the weary.
- Isa 45:20“Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.
- 1 Kgs 11:7Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
- 1 Kgs 18:26–29They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.
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