- verses
- 1
- first named
- 2 Kings 17:31
- last named
- 2 Kings 17:31
Description
Tartak in the text
Tartak is mentioned in 2Ki.17.31 as one of the deities worshipped by the Avvites, a people group settled in Samaria by the Assyrian king after the deportation of the Israelites. The verse states, "The Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim."
Little is known about the specific characteristics or attributes of Tartak, as this deity is not mentioned elsewhere in the Bible or in other historical sources. The name Tartak does not have a clear meaning or etymology in any known ancient Near Eastern language.
The worship of Tartak, along with other foreign deities, was practiced by the Avvites in Samaria alongside the worship of the Lord (2Ki.17.33). This syncretistic religious practice was condemned by the biblical authors, who emphasized the importance of exclusive devotion to the God of Israel.
The mention of Tartak in 2Kings 17 highlights the religious and cultural challenges faced by the Israelites living in Samaria after the Assyrian conquest, as they were influenced by the religious practices of the foreign peoples settled among them. This passage serves as a warning against compromising the worship of the true God by adopting the beliefs and practices of surrounding nations.
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.
Stands in the same events as
- Ashima1 event
- Nergal1 event
- Nibhaz1 event
- Succoth-benoth1 event
The pattern
Where Tartak 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.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Kings (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
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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