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For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also will be taken. Chemosh will go out into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
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Verse 7. Bulwarks. Hebrew “works,” or possessions of corn, cattle, and so forth Calmet.—Chamos, the idol of the Moabites. Challoner.—He was esteemed the king of the country, as the devil is the ape of God. The prophets often deride the imbecility of these idols. Calmet. 43 and 11. The chief idol of Moab shall fall, to shew the vanity of trusting in idols. Worthington.
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