24 Will you not possess whatever (A)Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whatever (B)the Lord our God takes possession of before us, we will possess.

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24 Will you not take what your god Chemosh(A) gives you? Likewise, whatever the Lord our God has given us,(B) we will possess.

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33 (A)because [a]they have forsaken Me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David.

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  1. 1 Kings 11:33 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. he has

33 I will do this because they have[a] forsaken me and worshiped(A) Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molek the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked(B) in obedience to me, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my decrees(C) and laws as David, Solomon’s father, did.

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  1. 1 Kings 11:33 Hebrew; Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac because he has

13 Then the king defiled the [a]high places that were east of Jerusalem, which were on the [b]south of [c]the Mount of Corruption, which (A)Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the people of Ammon.

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  1. 2 Kings 23:13 Places for pagan worship
  2. 2 Kings 23:13 Lit. right of
  3. 2 Kings 23:13 The Mount of Olives

13 The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption—the ones Solomon(A) king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable(B) god of the people of Ammon.(C)

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