그모스(Chemosh) 는
Moabites 이 숭배한 주신(主神)이다. 전쟁의 신으로 알려져있다.
Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh ! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.
Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.
모압 족속 자체가 그모스의 백성이라고 불리웠다.
또한, 입다가 그모스를 '암몬의 신'이라고 한 걸 보면 모압 족속 뿐만 아니라 이웃해있는 암몬에게까지 퍼져있었던 신앙으로 보인다.
Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
Solomon 은 그모스 신앙을 가지고 있는 모압 여인을 아내로 맞이하여 이스라엘에 그모스 숭배가 들어오게 하였다.
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem , and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
이스라엘 백성들은 그모스를 숭배하며 인신제사를 바치는 일들을 자행했다.
They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
이 산당은
Josiah 왕 때 되어서야 훼파가 되었다
The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem , which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.
모압 왕
Mesa 는 이스라엘 군대와 전투 끝에 패배의 위기에 처하자 자신의 장자를 인신 제사 드린다.
26 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.
27 Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel ; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
예레미야 선지자는 모압에 대한 심판을 예언하면서 상징적으로 그모스가 포로로 잡혀갈 것이라고 예언하였다.
For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also will be taken. Chemosh will go out into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh , as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel , their confidence.