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Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.
Jeremiah 48:13 · Berean Standard Bible
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  • WEB Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
  • KJV And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
  • 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 all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.
  • Jer 48:39“How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”
  • Hos 8:5–6He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
  • Judg 11:24Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.
  • 1 Kgs 12:28–29After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
  • Amos 5:5–6Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
  • Jer 48:7Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.
  • Isa 16:12When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
  • Hos 10:14–15the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.
  • Jer 48:46Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; for your sons have been taken into exile and your daughters have gone into captivity.
  • 1 Kgs 18:40Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.
  • 1 Sam 5:3–7When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.
  • Isa 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
  • Hos 10:5–6The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests—those who rejoiced in its glory—for it has been taken from them into exile.
  • Isa 46:1–2Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
  • Isa 45:20Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
  • 1 Kgs 11:7At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
  • 1 Kgs 18:26–29And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no sound, and no one answered as they leaped around the altar they had made.

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Christ at the center

Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.

How Jeremiah 48:13 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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