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Jeremiah 48:13

in Jeremiah 48

Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.

KJV

And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth–el their confidence.

This verse in Jeremiah 48

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
Israel was ashamed of Beth-el - After Salmaneser had carried Israel away, they could trust no longer in the calf of Bethel established by Jeroboam.

This site's exposition

settled on his lees

on Jeremiah 48:11-17

The oracle's most famous figure is from the wine country it addresses: Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel. Wine left on its sediment keeps its raw taste, and Moab, never exiled, never poured out, kept his: undisturbed prosperity as a preservative of corruption, which the bench treats as one of Scripture's sharpest sayings about comfort. The emptiers are coming, the vessels will be broken, and Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh as Israel was ashamed of Beth-el, the northern calf sanctuary named as the parallel confidence that failed; the strong staff broken and the beautiful rod ends the unit as a formal lament.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, Those that will not be convinced and made ashamed of the folly of their idolatry by the word of God shall be convinced and made ashamed of it by the judgments of God, when they shall find by woeful experience the utter inability of the gods they have served to do them any service. There will be great sorrow; there is a voice of crying heard (

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And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

ashamed--have the shame of disappointment as to the hopes they entertained of aid from Chemosh, their idol. Beth-el-- (1Ki 12:27, 29) --that is, the golden calf set up there by Jeroboam.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Beth-el their confidence - Alluding to the golden calves which Jeroboam had there set up, and commanded all the Israelites to worship.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּבֹ֥שׁand it will be ashamed

    uvoshH954127 times

  • מוֹאָ֖בMoab

    moavH4124181 times

  • מִכְּמ֑וֹשׁfrom Chemosh

    mikemooshH36458 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁר־just as

    kaasher-H8345497 times

  • בֹּ֙שׁוּ֙they were ashamed

    boshuH954127 times

  • בֵּ֣ית[the] house of

    beitH10042046 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • מִבֵּ֥יתfrom Beth-

    mibeitH1008

  • אֵ֖ל-el

    ʾelH1008

  • מִבְטֶחָֽם׃trust their

    mivtechamH400915 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 2:20

    In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 30:22

      So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”

  • Through

    Isaiah 45:16

    They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 44:11

      Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are only human. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will all be brought to terror and shame.

    • Isaiah 42:17

      But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.

    • Isaiah 44:9

      All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.

  • Through

    Judges 11:24

    Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.

    it leads to

    • Micah 4:5

      Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.

    • Psalms 78:55

      He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

    • Numbers 21:29

      Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

    • Joshua 3:10

      He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

About Jeremiah

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.