Jeremiah 48:13
And Moab has been ashamed because of Chemosh, || As the house of Israel has been ashamed || Because of Beth-El, their confidence.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
In Context
14How do you say, We [are] mighty, || And men of strength for battle?
Cross References
Judges 11:24That which your god Chemosh causes you to possess—do you not possess it? And all that which our God YHWH has dispossessed from our presence—we possess it.
1 Kings 11:7Then Solomon builds a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the hill that [is] on the front of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the sons of Ammon;
1 Kings 12:29And he sets the one in Beth-El, and the other he has put in Dan,
1 Kings 18:40And Elijah says to them, “Catch the prophets of Ba‘al; do not let a man escape from them”; and they catch them, and Elijah brings them down to the Brook of Kishon, and slaughters them there.
Isaiah 2:20In that day man casts his idols of silver, || And his idols of gold, || That they have made for him to worship, || To moles, and to bats,
Isaiah 45:16They have been ashamed, || And they have even blushed—all of them, || Those carving images have gone together in confusion.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 48:2-14
The Judgment of Moab. ( b. c. 605.) 1 Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed. 2 There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee. 3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. 4 Moab is destroyed; her little… Read the whole commentary →