Jeremiah 48:13
in Jeremiah 48Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.
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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.
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This verse in Jeremiah 48
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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
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 & Brown1802–1910
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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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 wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבֹ֥שׁ | uvosh | and it will be ashamed | H954 → | 127 times |
| מוֹאָ֖ב | moav | Moab | H4124 → | 181 times |
| מִכְּמ֑וֹשׁ | mikemoosh | from Chemosh | H3645 → | 8 times |
| כַּאֲשֶׁר־ | kaasher- | just as | H834 → | 5497 times |
| בֹּ֙שׁוּ֙ | boshu | they were ashamed | H954 → | 127 times |
| בֵּ֣ית | beit | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| מִבֵּ֥ית | mibeit | from Beth- | H1008 → | |
| אֵ֖ל | ʾel | -el | H1008 → | |
| מִבְטֶחָֽם׃ | mivtecham | trust their | H4009 → | 15 times |
וּבֹ֥שׁand it will be ashamed
uvoshH954 →127 times
מוֹאָ֖בMoab
moavH4124 →181 times
מִכְּמ֑וֹשׁfrom Chemosh
mikemooshH3645 →8 times
כַּאֲשֶׁר־just as
kaasher-H834 →5497 times
בֹּ֙שׁוּ֙they were ashamed
boshuH954 →127 times
בֵּ֣ית[the] house of
beitH1004 →2046 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
מִבֵּ֥יתfrom Beth-
mibeitH1008 →
אֵ֖ל-el
ʾelH1008 →
מִבְטֶחָֽם׃trust their
mivtechamH4009 →15 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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 2:20In 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!”
- Isaiah 30:22
Through
Isaiah 45:16They 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.
- Isaiah 44:11
Through
Judges 11:24Do 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.
- Micah 4:5
About Jeremiah

Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PlaceCentral hill countryBethelThe house of God, where Jacob saw the ladder and heard the promise, where he returned to raise an altar, and where Jeroboam’s gold…
- PlaceTransjordanMoabThe high country east of the Dead Sea, home of Lot's descendants, where Balak hired Balaam, where Ruth was born, and where Moses l…
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.
