One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Ashtaroth. Every Ashtaroth in the Bible
supernatural
Ashtaroth
עַשְׁתָּרוֹת
Ashtaroth was a Canaanite goddess of fertility and war whose worship was condemned in the Bible.
- verses
- 6
- first named
- Judges 2:13
- last named
- 1 Samuel 12:10
Description
Ashtaroth in the text
Ashtaroth was a Canaanite goddess of fertility, love, and war. The Israelites were repeatedly drawn into worshipping Ashtaroth during times of apostasy (Judg 2:13; 10:6; 1Sa.7.3-4; 12:10). After the Philistines captured the ark of the covenant, they placed it in the temple of Dagon at Ashdod and later returned it with an offering of golden tumors and rats, which they sent to Beth-shemesh on a cart pulled by two cows (1Sa.6.1-14). The name Ashtaroth is also used to refer to the place where her cult was practiced, such as Ashtaroth-karnaim, a city in Bashan (Gen.14.5; Deut 1:4; Josh 9:10; 12:4; 13:12, 31).
Relations
Direct connections
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The pattern
Where Ashtaroth is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
6 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Judges (2) and 1 Samuel (4).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 6, across 2 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
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