Chemosh
Americannoun
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Yet he resists temptation, and except for a few scenes in which priests of Chemosh, played by weight lifters in green lingerie, clomp about to oboe music, the picture is commendably unepic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just as a King of Israel would speak of Jahweh, the King of Moab speaks of Chemosh.
From God and my Neighbour by Robert Blatchford
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.
From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches
And Chemosh said unto me: Go, seize Nebo upon Israel; and 15.
From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
The Mesha inscription furnishes facts bearing on Moabite handwriting and language, the belief in the god Chemosh, the practices belonging to his cult, the war between the Moabites and Israel.
From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry
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