Judges 11:24
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24 Should you not possess what your god Chemosh gives you to possess? And should we not be the ones to possess everything that the Lord our God has conquered for our benefit?(A)
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Numbers 21:29
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29 Woe to you, O Moab!
You are undone, O people of Chemosh!
He has made his sons fugitives
and his daughters captives
to an Amorite king, Sihon.(A)
Micah 4:5
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5 For all the peoples walk,
each in the name of its god,
but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God
forever and ever.(A)
Psalm 78:55
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55 He drove out nations before them;
he apportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.(A)
1 Kings 11:7
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7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites on the mountain east of Jerusalem.(A)
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Joshua 3:10
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10 Joshua said, “By this you shall know that among you is the living God who without fail will drive out from before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites:(A)
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Deuteronomy 18:12
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12 For whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord; it is because of such abhorrent practices that the Lord your God is driving them out before you.(A)
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Jeremiah 48:46
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46 Woe to you, O Moab!
The people of Chemosh have perished,
for your sons have been taken captive
and your daughters into captivity.(A)
Jeremiah 48:7
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7 Surely, because you trusted in your strongholds[a] and your treasures,
you also shall be taken;
Chemosh shall go out into exile,
with his priests and his attendants.(A)
Footnotes
- 48.7 Gk: Heb works
Psalm 44:2
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2 you with your own hand drove out the nations,
but them you planted;
you afflicted the peoples,
but them you set free;(A)
Deuteronomy 9:4-5
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4 “When the Lord your God thrusts them out before you, do not say to yourself, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to occupy this land’; it is rather because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you.(A) 5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to occupy their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is dispossessing them before you, in order to fulfill the promise that the Lord made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.(B)
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