OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 21:29

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29

Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.

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Verse 29. He. Chamos, the idol of Moab, is upbraided as too weak to defend his people. The pagans generally formed their judgments of the power of their gods, by the event; and, if that proved unfortunate, they were ever ready to consign the idols to the flames. Chamos was probably the sun. Calmet.—Some say he was Bacchus, whom the Greeks call Komas. Menochius.

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