And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.
Jeremiah 48 stands within the prophecies against the nations in Jeremiah 46-51, including the prophecy against Moab, and those chapters address Babylon both as the ancient empire and as a type of mystical Babylon. The verse belongs to a prophecy that Moab would fall before Nebuchadnezzar. Chemosh was the god of Moab and Moab's trusted confidence, while Bethel was the object of Israel's reliance and misplaced confidence, and the verse declares that Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh just as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel.
Mesha king of Moab served Chemosh as his god, ascribing to him anger with his land when Omri king of Israel with his son and his grandson afflicted Moab and held Medeba forty years, and ascribing to him restoration in Mesha's days. He ascribed to Chemosh the command to take Nebo from Israel and to fight Horonaim, the driving of the king of Israel from Jahaz, and the receipt of the captured altar of Jehovah at Kerioth and the vessels of Jehovah presented before him. He ascribed to him also the slaying of seven thousand men of Nebo as devoted to Ashtor-Chemosh. The exact agreement of Mesha's record with the Scripture account of Omri, Ahab, Jehoram, and Mesha's servitude and rebellion shows that the biblical record was made at the same time as the events, 929 B.C.
Jeremiah 48 stands within the prophecies against the nations in Jeremiah 46-51, including the prophecy against Moab, and those chapters address Babylon both as the ancient empire and as a type of mystical Babylon. The verse belongs to a prophecy that Moab would fall before Nebuchadnezzar. Chemosh was the god of Moab and Moab's trusted confidence, while Bethel was the object of Israel's reliance and misplaced confidence, and the verse declares that Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh just as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel.
Mesha king of Moab served Chemosh as his god, ascribing to him anger with his land when Omri king of Israel with his son and his grandson afflicted Moab and held Medeba forty years, and ascribing to him restoration in Mesha's days. He ascribed to Chemosh the command to take Nebo from Israel and to fight Horonaim, the driving of the king of Israel from Jahaz, and the receipt of the captured altar of Jehovah at Kerioth and the vessels of Jehovah presented before him. He ascribed to him also the slaying of seven thousand men of Nebo as devoted to Ashtor-Chemosh. The exact agreement of Mesha's record with the Scripture account of Omri, Ahab, Jehoram, and Mesha's servitude and rebellion shows that the biblical record was made at the same time as the events, 929 B.C.