24 Isn’t it true that you may possess whatever your god Chemosh drives out for you, and we may possess everything the Lord our God drives out before us?

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At that time, Solomon built a high place(A) for Chemosh,(B) the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom,[a](C) the detestable idol of the Ammonites, on the hill across from Jerusalem.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 11:7 Lit Molech

33 For they have abandoned Me; they have bowed the knee to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites.(A) They have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and to carry out My statutes and My judgments as his father David did.(B)

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45 Those who flee will stand exhausted in Heshbon’s shadow
because fire has come out from Heshbon
and a flame from within Sihon.
It will devour Moab’s forehead
and the skull of the noisemakers.
46 Woe to you, Moab!
The people of Chemosh have perished
because your sons have been taken captive
and your daughters have gone into captivity.(A)
47 Yet, I will restore the fortunes[a] of Moab in the last days.(B)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
The judgment on Moab ends here.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:47 Or will end the captivity

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