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 For Solomen went after Ashtoreth the goddess of Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.1 Kings11:5

                                         Because they have forsaken Me, and worshippd Ashtoreth and goddess of Sidonians,Chemosh the god of Moabites and Milcom the god of the people of Ammom and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statues and My judgments, as did his father David. 1 KIngs 11:33 

                                           Then the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerosalem whichwere on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomen king of Israel had builtfor Ahtoreth the abominationof the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites and for Milcom the abomination of the people of Ammon.2 Kings23:13

                                               AGAINST the Ammonites. Thus says the LORD: " Has Israel no sons ? Has he no heir ? Why then Milcom inherit Gad, and his people dwell in its cities? Therefore behold, the days are coming say the LORD, "That I will cause to be heard an alarm of war in Rabbah of the Ammonites; it shall be a desolate mound, and he villages shall be burned with fire. Then Israel shall take possession of his inheritance, "says the LORD.  "Wail, O Heshbon, for Ali plundered! Cry, you daughter of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth! Lament and run to and fro by the walls; for Milcom shall go into captivity with his priests and his princes together. Why do you boast in the valley, O backsliding daughter? Who trusted in her treasures, saying, 'Who will come against me ?' Behold, I will bring fear upon you, "says the Lord GOD of hosts," From all those who are around you; you shall be driven out, everyone  headlong, and no one will gather those who wander off. But afterward I will bring back the captives of the people of Ammon, "says the LORD. Against Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished? Flee, turn back, dwel in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I will being the calmity of Esau upon him, the time that I will punish him. If grape - gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, would they not destroy until they have enough? But I have made Esau bare; I have uncovered is secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself. His descendants are plundered, his brethren and his neighbors, and he is no more. Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in Me."  For thus says the LORD: "Behold, those whose judgment was not  to drink of cup have assurdly drunk. And are you the one who will not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink of it.  "For I have sworn by Myself, "says the LORD, "that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual wastes." I have heard a message from the LORD, and an ambassdor has been sent to the nations:" Gather togather, come against her, and rise up to battle! "For indeed, I will make you small among nations, despised among men. Your fierceness has decieved you, the prid of your heaart, O you  who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill ! Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, "says the LORD. "Edom also shall be an astonisment; everyone who goes by it will  be astonished and will hiss at all its plagues. As in the overthrow of Sodom and their neighbor, "says the LORD, "No one shall remain there, nor shall a son of man dwell in it.  "Behold, he shall come uo like a lion from the flood plain of the Jordan against the dwelling places of the strong; but I will suddenly make him run away from her. And who is a chosen man that I mat appoint over her? For who is like Me? Who will arraign Me? And who is that shepherd who will with stand Me? " Therfore hear the cousel of the LORD that He has taken against the Edom, and His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of the Teman: surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them. The earth shakes at the noise of their fall; at the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.  Behold, He shall come up and fly like the eagle, and spread His wing over Bozarah; the heart of the mighty  men of the Edom in the day shall be like the heart of a woman in the birth pangs. Against Damascus, "Hamath and Arpad are shamed, for they have heard bad news. They are fainthearted; there is trouble on the sea; it cannot be quiet.  Damascus has grown feeble; she turns to flee, and fear has seized her. Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor. Why is the city of praise not deserted, the city of My joy? Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day," says the LORD of hosts." I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of  Ben - Hadad." Aganst Kedar and against the kingdoms of Hazor, which  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon says the LORD: "Arise, go up to Kedar, and devastate the men of the East!  Their tents and their flocks they shall take away. They shall take for themselves their curtains, All their vessels and their camels; and they shall cry out to them, 'Fear is on every side! ' "Flee, get far away! Dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor!" says the LORD." For Nebuchadnezzar king Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has concieed a plan aginst you. "Arise, go up to the wealthy nation that dwells securely," says the LORD, "Which has neither gates nor bars, dwelling alone. Their camels shall be for booty, and the multitude of their cattle for plunder. I will scatter to all winds those in the farthest corners, and I will bring their calamity from all its sides," sas the LORD. "Hazor shall be a dwelling for jackals, a desolation forever, no one shall reside there, nor son of man dwell in it." The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the foremost of their might. Against Elam I will bring the four wind from the four quaters of haeven, and scatter them toward all those wind;there shall be no nation where the outcasts of the Elam will not go. For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemy and before those who seek their life. I will bring disaster upon them, My fierce anger,`says the LORD; 'And I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.  I will set My throne in Elam, and will destroy from there the king and princes, 'says the LORD. 'But it shall come to pass in the latter days: I will bring back the captives of Elam, 'says the LORD. JEREMIAH 49:1-39

                                                 I will stretch out My hand against Judah, and against al the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off every trace off Baal from this place, the name of the idolatrous priests with the pagan priests -  Those who worship the host of heaven on the housetops; those who worship and swear oaths by the LORD, but who also swear by Milcom; Those who have turned back from following the LORD, and have not sought the LORD, nor inquired of Him." Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD; for the day of the LORD is at hand, for the LORD has prepared a scrifice; He has invited his guests.  "And it shall be, in the day of LORD' sacrifice, that I will punish the princes and the king`s children, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel. In the same day I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their masters' house with violence and deciet. ''And there shall be on that day," says the LORD, "The sound of a mournful cry from the Fish Gate, a wailing from the Second Quarter, and a loud crashing from the hills.Zephaniah 1:4-10