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as i am traveling through the bible i came across Jer 48:13And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence. just lately this name keeps coming up on a daily basis and i thought hmmn ...and i found this https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/jeremiah-48-13.html Jeremiah 48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh His idol; see ( Jeremiah 48:7 ) ; of his worship of him, prayers to him, and confidence in him; he not being able to save him from the destruction of the Chaldeans, and being carried captive by them; he himself also going into captivity: as the house of Israel were ashamed of Bethel their confidence; that is, of the golden calf that was set up in Bethel by Jeroboam, and which the ten tribes of Israel worshipped, and in which they trusted; but that could not save them from being carried captive by the Assyrians; and so were ashamed of it, and of their idolatrous worship, and vain confidence. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethel_(god) Bethel (god) - Wikipedia Bethel meaning in Hebrew and Phoenician and Aramaic 'House of El' or 'House of God' is seemingly the name of a god or an aspect of a god in some ancient middle-eastern texts dating to the Assyrian, Persian and Hellenistic periods.In the treaty between King Esarhaddon of Assyria and Ba‘al I king of Tyre in 677 BC, curses are called down on the Tyrian king if he breaks the treaty, including: May Bethel and Anat-Bethel deliver you to a man-eating lion.The name Bethel begins to appear in theophorous name from the 7th century BC onward. Some, for example Porten (1969, p121), suspect it may be this god rather than the city of Bethel that is mentioned Jeremiah 48:13: And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence. Or to put it another way, the stone at Bethel which was named House-of-God was also a god in itself, a manifestation of the god Bethel. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ very interesting!