Judges 11:24

Chemosh] properly, the god of Moab. The Ammonite god was Milcom (1 Kings 11:33, etc.). It has been inferred that Jephthah, or the narrator of Jephthah's words, believed in the existence and power of Chemosh as in that of Jehovah: but this cannot be held to be certain: see also Judges 11:27. An interesting commentary on this passage is to be found in an inscription of Mesha, king of Moab (2 Kings 3:4.), who ascribes all his defeats to the wrath of Chemosh, and his conquests over Israel to Chemosh's goodwill.