Комментарий о цитате к Ирмеяу 48:35

WOE TO THEE, MOAB! THOU ART PERISHED, O PEOPLE OF CHEMOSH. The meaning of this is that [the people of] Moab used to worship Chemosh their deity, and build high places [i.e., altars, to him] and trust in him more than every other people, and in the time of their trouble they would say to him: ‘Arise, and save us.’³⁰⁰See Jeremiah 2:27. Similarly Scripture refers to [this worship of theirs] in all places, as it is written, And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab hath wearied himself upon the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail;³⁰¹Isaiah 16:12. and it is further stated [of Moab], and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together with him;³⁰²Jeremiah 48:7. Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the Eternal, him that offereth in the high place, and him that offereth to his gods.³⁰³Ibid., Verse 35. Therefore those who spoke in parables said by way of mockery, that Chemosh hath given ‘his sons’ as fugitives,³⁰⁴Here in Verse 29. refugees who flee [to safety] because of the sword; and ‘his daughters’ into captivity;³⁰⁴Here in Verse 29. [these terms, “sons” and “daughters” are used] because those who believe in him are called “his sons” and “his daughters,” in the same way that they are [here] called “his people” [people of Chemosh]. Similarly [we find the expression], the daughter of a strange god.³⁰⁵Malachi 2:11. The [correct explanation is thus] not like the words of Rashi, who interpreted [the verse as follows]: “He the Giver [i.e., G-d] gave his sons [i.e., those of Moab] as fugitives from the sword.”
Chemosh was also worshipped by the children of Ammon, as Jephthah said [to the king of Ammon], that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess that you will possess.³⁰⁶Judges 11:24. They also had in their country Milcom the detestation of the Ammonites.³⁰⁷I Kings 11:5. Or [it may be that] Jephthah mentioned Chemosh to the king of Ammon because of [the land] which Israel had captured from Moab, just as he [Jephthah] mentioned to them [i.e., to the Ammonites]: Balak king of Moab,³⁰⁸Judges 11:25. And now art thou anything better than Balak … meaning to say that neither Chemosh their god nor Balak their king had saved their land [Moab] from the hand of Israel. It is very fitting that we say, as our Rabbis explained,³⁰⁹Bamidbar Rabbah 19:8. that [the reference in the term] ‘hamoshlim’ (they that speak in parables)²⁶³Further, Verse 27. is to Balaam and those like him, the diviners who spoke in parables about future events.