Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever the LORD our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 24. Chamos. The idol of the Moabites and Ammonites. He argues from their opinion, who thought they had a just title to the countries which they imagined they had conquered by the help of their gods: how much more then had Israel an indisputable title to the countries which God, by visible miracles, had conquered for them. Challoner.—Hebrew “And shall not we possess those (counties occupied by the people whom) the Lord our God has driven out from before us?” Bible.—The Emim had been expelled by the people. Deuteronomy 2:10. Chamos was the peculiar deity of Moab, (Numbers 21:29. Jeremiah 48:46. and so forth Calmet.) and signifies “as taking away.” It is commonly supposed to be the sun. Bible.