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Chemosh (Moabite: 𐤊𐤌𐤔 , romanized: Kamōš; Biblical Hebrew: כְּמוֹשׁ, romanized: Kəmōš) is a Canaanite deity worshipped by Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples who occupied the region known in the Hebrew Bible as Moab, in modern-day Jordan east of the Dead Sea, during the Levantine Bronze and Iron Ages.
Jeremiah 48 is the forty-eighth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter is part of a series of "oracles against foreign nations", consisting of chapters 46 to 51. [1]
Asherah, queen consort of El (Ugaritic religion), Elkunirša (Hittite religion), Yahweh (Israelite religion), Amurru (Amorite religion), Anu (Akkadian religion) and 'Amm (Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia) [13] Symbolized by an Asherah pole in the Hebrew Bible. Ashima, goddess of fate. Ashtar-Chemosh, wife of Chemosh and goddess of the Moabites.
The stele, whose story parallels, with some differences, an episode in the Bible's Books of Kings (2 Kings 3:4–27), provides invaluable information on the Moabite language and the political relationship between Moab and Israel at one moment in the 9th century BCE. [3]
The Bible attests Milcom as playing the role of the Ammonites' chief state god in parallel to Yahweh's role in Israel. [7] Given that the Bible refers to Milcom having been worshiped by royal sanction in Jerusalem, it is possible that he was also worshiped as a native rather than a foreign god in Israel.
The two main sources for the existence and history of King Mesha are the Mesha Stele and the Hebrew Bible.. Per the Mesha Stele, Mesha's father was also a king of Moab.His name is not totally preserved in the inscription, only the theophoric first element Chemosh(-...) surviving; throughout the years scholars have proposed numerous reconstructions, including Chemosh-gad, [2] Chemosh-melek, [3 ...
In the Hebrew Bible, the name Ataroth refers to two or perhaps three towns: A town east of the Jordan in Gilead , mentioned in Numbers , 32:3 & 32:34 , in the territory of the Tribe of Gad . Ataroth lay within the tribal allotment of Reuben , but was built up by the Gadites during the period of Israelite conquest.
Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible. Leiden / Boston / Köln: Brill. p. 919. ISBN 0802824919. OCLC 1005995268. Klein, Reuven Chaim (2018). God versus Gods: Judasim in the Age of Idolatry. Mosaica Press. ISBN 978-1946351463. OL 27322748M. On the Syrian Goddess by Lucian of Samosata.