Chemosh
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See Kudur- Chedorlaomer, 209, 215; at first identified with Kudur-mabuk, 222; probably the Kudur-laḫmal, or Kudur-laḫgumal of the inscriptions, 223, 232 Chemosh, the god of the Moabites, 557, 559 ff.
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In Kammusu-nadbi we have an instance of the occurrence of the name of Chemosh, the national god of the Moabites.
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A district god of this kind was fashionable all over Syria at that time, each petty state or tribe having one of its own; such as Astart�, with the cross, of the Phoenicians; Moloch, of the Ammonites; Astoroth and Dagon, of the Philistines; Tammuz, or Adonis, of the Sidonians; Chemosh,* of the Moabites, etc., etc.; and why should not the Jews be armed with a god as well as their neighbors?
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Chemosh, kē′mosh, n. the national god of Moab: any false god.
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Like Chemosh in Moab, Assur reigns alone; and though the immemorial influence of Babylonia kept alive the worship of Istar by the side of him, it was Assur and Assur only who led the Assyrian armies to victory, and in whose name they subdued the disobedient.
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