And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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
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- Isa 45:16They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
- Jer 48:39They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
- Hos 8:5–6Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
- Judg 11:24Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.
- 1 Kgs 12:28–29Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
- Amos 5:5–6But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
- Jer 48:7For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.
- Isa 16:12And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.
- Hos 10:14–15Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
- Jer 48:46Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
- 1 Kgs 18:40And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
- 1 Sam 5:3–7And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
- Isa 2:20In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
- Hos 10:5–6The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
- Isa 46:1–2Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
- Isa 45:20Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
- 1 Kgs 11:7Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
- 1 Kgs 18:26–29And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
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