supernatural
Ashtoreth
עַשְׁתֹּ֫רֶת
Ashtoreth, was a Sidonian goddess of fertility and war whose worship was condemned in the Bible.
- verses
- 3
- first named
- 1 Kings 11:5
- last named
- 2 Kings 23:13
Description
Ashtoreth in the text
King Solomon, despite his wisdom, turned away from the Lord and worshipped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, along with other foreign deities (1Ki.11.5, 33). He even built a high place for Ashtoreth on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem (1Ki.11.7; 2Ki.23.13). These actions led to the division of his kingdom after his death (1Ki.11.9-13). The cult of Ashtoreth involved ritual prostitution and child sacrifice, practices that were strongly condemned by the biblical prophets (2Ki.23.10; Jer.32.35). King Josiah later destroyed the high places dedicated to Ashtoreth and other pagan gods as part of his religious reforms (2Ki.23.13).
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The pattern
Where Ashtoreth 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.
3 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Kings (2) and 2 Kings (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 2 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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