ellauri171.html on line 175: Ruth oli hyveellinen nuori leski, luonteeltaan niin suorapuheinen, että hänen rakkaustarinansa on yksi koko Raamatun suosikkikertomuksista. Kun hänen juutalainen anoppinsa Noomi palasi Israeliin Moabista nälänhädän jälkeen, Ruut lupasi seurata Noomia ja palvoa hänen Jumalaansa eikä omaa moabilaisten kalajumalaansa, nimeltään Kemos. Bet Chemosh loukkaantui hieman. Itse asiassa Kemosh oli niin vihainen, että hän antoi moabilaisten joutua Israelin vallan alle.
ellauri171.html on line 826: Ashtar-Chemosh, wife of Chemosh and goddess of the Moabites.
ellauri171.html on line 856: Chemosh, possibly one of the sons of El, a god of war and destruction and the national god of the Moabites and the Ammonites.
ellauri171.html on line 954: According to the pantheon, known in Ugarit as 'ilhm (Elohim) or the children of El, supposedly obtained by Philo of Byblos from Sanchuniathon of Berythus (Beirut) the creator was known as Elion, who was the father of the divinities, and in the Greek sources he was married to Beruth (Beirut = the city). This marriage of the divinity with the city would seem to have Biblical parallels too with the stories of the link between Melqart and Tyre; Chemosh and Moab; Tanit and Baal Hammon in Carthage, Yah and Jerusalem.
ellauri370.html on line 74: It is translated into Latin as devotio, a word used for human sacrifice, and into Greek as anathema, which was a sacrifice to the gods (and later to God). Hopelessly devoted to you. It is related to the Arabic root ḫ-r-m, which can also mean to perforate. Balchin argues that "drastic action was required to keep Israel in holy existence." Longman and Reid alternatively suggest that herem was a "sacrifice of the occupants of Canaan in the interest of securing the purity of the land." The concept of herem was not unique to Israel. The Mesha Stele contains a statement by King Mesha of Moab that he captured the town of Nebo and killed all seven thousand people there, "for I had devoted them to destruction for (the god) Ashtar-Chemosh."
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