Jeremiah 48:13
Good News Translation
Then the Moabites will be disillusioned with their god Chemosh, just as the Israelites were disillusioned with Bethel, a god in whom they trusted.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

Contemporary English Version
Then you will be ashamed, because your god Chemosh cannot save you, just as Bethel could not help the Israelites.

New American Bible
Chemosh shall disappoint Moab, just as the house of Israel was disappointed by Bethel, in which they trusted.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, in which they trusted.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, in which they trusted.

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Jeremiah 48:7,39,46 For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together. . . .

Judges 11:24 Are not those things which thy god Chamos possesseth, due to thee by right? But what the Lord our God hath obtained by conquest, shall be our possession:

1 Samuel 5:3-7 And when the Azotians arose early the next day, behold Dagon lay upon his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord: and they took Dagon, and set him again in his place. . . .

1 Kings 11:7 Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos, the idol of Moab, on the hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch, the idol of the children of Ammon.

1 Kings 18:26-29,40 And they took the bullock, which he gave them, and dressed it: and they called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying: O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered: and they leaped over the altar that they had made. . . .

Isaiah 2:20 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

Isaiah 16:12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is wearied on his high places, that he shall go in to his sanctuaries to pray, and shall not prevail.

Isaiah 45:16,20 They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are gone together into confusion. . . .

Isaiah 46:1,2 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and praised. . . .

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1 Kings 12:28,29 And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. . . .

Hosea 8:5,6 Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed? . . .

Hosea 10:5,6,14,15 The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped the calf of Bethaven: for the people thereof have mourned over it, and the wardens of its temple that rejoiced over it in its glory because it is departed from it. . . .

Amos 5:5,6 But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither shall you pass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall be unprofitable. . . .

Context
The Judgment on Moab
12Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send him men that shall order and overturn his bottles, and they shall cast him down, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles one against another. 13And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, in which they trusted.14How do you say: We are valiant and stout men in battle?…
Cross References
Judges 11:24
Are not those things which thy god Chamos possesseth, due to thee by right? But what the Lord our God hath obtained by conquest, shall be our possession:

1 Kings 11:33
Because he hath forsaken me, and hath adored Astarthe, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Chamos, the god of Moab, and Moloch, the god of the children of Ammon: and hath not walked in my ways, to do justice before me, and to keep my precepts, and judgments, as did David, his father.

1 Kings 12:29
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan:

Isaiah 45:16
They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are gone together into confusion.

Jeremiah 48:7
For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together.

Jeremiah 48:12
Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send him men that shall order and overturn his bottles, and they shall cast him down, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles one against another.

Jeremiah 48:39
How is it overthrown, and they have howled! How hath Moab bowed down the neck, and is confounded! And Moab shall be a derision, and an example to all round about him.

Hosea 8:5
Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?

Hosea 8:6
For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs.

Jeremiah 48:12
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