Herbert Fuller Bright Compston, The Inscription on the Stele of Méšaʿ (1919)
“ The theologian sees evidence confirming what modern Biblical study has revealed as to Semitic religion. For there are, e.g. references to Kemôš, the god of Moab, and to Yahweh God of Israel, and His shrine at Nebo, with allusions to the treatment of conquered cities "devoted," i.e. ”
Herbert Fuller Bright Compston, The Inscription on the Stele of Méšaʿ (1919)
“ A Hebrew student will find the inscription very like historical narrative in the Old Testament. (c) The historian finds in the Inscription a valuable contribution to the little-known story of a people long extinct. ”
Herbert Fuller Bright Compston, The Inscription on the Stele of Méšaʿ (1919)
“ Now the men of Gaḏ had dwelt in the land of ʿǎṭarôṯ from of old; and the king of Yi [srāʾēl (beginning of line 11) ] built for himself11ʿǎṭarôṯ. And I fought against the city and took it. And I slew all the people [from] 12the city, a gazing-stock for Kemôš and for Mōʾāḇ. And I restored (or captured) from thence the altar-hearth (?) of Dāwḏôh (or its tutelary spirit?) , and I drag- 13-ged it before Kemôš in Ḳeriyyôṯ. And I placed therein the men of Šrn [3] and the men of 14Mḥrṯ. [4] And Kemôš said unto me Go, seize Neḇôh against Yisrāʾēl. ”
