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    Chemosh

    God of the Moabites, mentioned in Bible

    Chemosh is a Canaanite deity worshipped by Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples who occupied the region known in the Hebrew Bible as Moab, in modern-day Jordan east of the Dead Sea, during the Levantine Bronze and Iron Ages. Chemosh was the supreme deity of the Canaanite state of Moab and the patron-god of its population, the Moabites, who in consequence were called the "People of Chemosh". The name and significance of Chemosh are historically attested in the Moabite-language inscriptions on the Mesha Stele, dated ca. 840 BCE. Chemosh is also mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Wikipedia

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  2. Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, ... I have heard that child sacrifice is alive and well today, as well as blood drinking, child trafficking, abuse, and ritual torture. May Messiah come quickly, even today, and may even our ears that have heard ...
  3. en.wikipedia.org

    Chemosh (Moabite: 𐤊𐤌𐤔 ‎, romanized: Kamōš; Biblical Hebrew: כְּמוֹשׁ, romanized: Kəmōš) is a Canaanite deity worshipped by Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples who occupied the region known in the Hebrew Bible as Moab, in modern-day Jordan east of the Dead Sea, during the Levantine Bronze and Iron Ages. Chemosh was the supreme deity of the Canaanite state of Moab and the ...
  4. learnreligions.com

    Blood Sacrifice for Chemosh . Chemosh seems to have also had a taste for blood. In 2 Kings 3:27 we find that human sacrifice was part of the rites of Chemosh. This practice, while gruesome, was certainly not unique to the Moabites, as such rites were commonplace in the various Canaanite religious cults, including those of the Baals and Moloch.
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please or appease a deity, supernatural beings, or sacred social order, ... the Mesha Stele as evidence that the neighbouring Moabites performed human sacrifices with prisoners of war to their god Chemosh after successfully attacking an Israelite city in the 9th century BCE.
  6. library.biblicalarchaeology.org

    When the alliance besieged the Moabite capital of Kir-Hareseth, the Moabite king Mesha, in desperation, sacrificed his eldest son to the god Chemosh. King Mesha offered the crown prince as a burnt offering on top of the city wall in full view of the enemy forces (2 Kings 3:26-27). With this horrifying act, Mesha turned defeat into victory.
  7. biblehub.com

    Human sacrifice, though abhorrent to the Israelites, was practiced by some neighboring cultures, including the Moabites. The act of offering a burnt sacrifice on the city wall was likely intended to invoke the favor of the Moabite god Chemosh. This public display was meant to rally the Moabite people and possibly to invoke divine intervention.
  8. compellingtruth.org

    Worship to Chemosh included child sacrifice, as demonstrated by the Moabite king sacrificing his eldest son when he saw they were losing in battle (2 Kings 3:27). There is very little information on who the Moabites believed Chemosh to be, with two of the major sources being Old Testament Scripture and a Moabite tablet, the Mesha Stele (or ...
  9. jewishencyclopedia.com

    Chemosh was a god developed out of the primitive Semitic mother-goddess Athtar, whose name he bears (Moabite Stone, line 17; compare Barton, "Semitic Origins," iv.). ... On critical occasions a human sacrifice was considered necessary to secure his favor (compare II Kings iii. 27), and when deliverance came, a sanctuary might be built to him ...
  10. allthatsinteresting.com

    Here is a passage from Leviticus 18:21, condemning child sacrifice, "Do not allow any of your children to be offered to Molech." Passages in Kings, Isaiah, and Jeremiah also refer to a tophet , which has been defined as both a location in ancient Jerusalem where there was a special bronze statue internally heated by fire, or the statue ...
  11. newworldencyclopedia.org

    Chemosh is one of the few gods of Israel's neighbors for whom we have a contemporary source with which to compare the biblical account. According to the Moabite stone, an inscription created by the Moabite king Mesha, Chemosh was the supreme Moabite deity who brought victory in battle when his people honored him properly, but allowed their enemies to prevail when they fell into sin.

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