supernatural
Chemosh
כְּמוֹשׁ
Chemosh, the god of the Moabites, was worshipped by Solomon and the Israelites, leading them into idolatry.
- verses
- 8
- first named
- Numbers 21:29
- last named
- Jeremiah 48:46
Description
Chemosh in the text
Chemosh was the national god of the Moabites, a neighboring people to the Israelites. He is mentioned several times in the Old Testament, often in the context of idolatry and the Israelites' unfaithfulness to the Lord.
In Numbers 21:29, Chemosh is referred to as the god of the Moabites, to whom they attributed their victories and defeats. Judges 11:24 mentions Chemosh as the god who gave the Moabites their land, drawing a parallel between him and the Lord, who gave the Israelites their land.
King Solomon, despite his wisdom, turned away from the Lord and built a high place for Chemosh on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem (1Ki.11.7, 33). This act of idolatry was one of the reasons for the division of Solomon's kingdom after his death.
The worship of Chemosh persisted among the Israelites, and King Josiah, as part of his religious reforms, destroyed the high places dedicated to Chemosh (2Ki.23.13). The prophet Jeremiah also denounced the worship of Chemosh, foretelling the destruction of Moab and the shame that would come upon those who trusted in this false god (Jeremiah 48:7, 13, 46).
The biblical references to Chemosh serve as a warning against the dangers of idolatry and the consequences of turning away from the Lord to worship other gods. They also highlight the importance of remaining faithful to the one true God and resisting the temptation to conform to the religious practices of the surrounding nations.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Stands in the same events as
- Solomon2 events
- Sihon1 event
- Molech1 event
- Foreign Women1 event
- Ashtoreth1 event
The pattern
Where Chemosh is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
8 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in Numbers (1), Judges (1), 1 Kings (2), 2 Kings (1) and Jeremiah (3).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 8, across 5 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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