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... populations; obliteration of types-Influence of Babylon on costumes, customs, and religion- Baalim and Astarte, plant-gods and stone-gods-Religion, human sacrifices, festivals; sacred stones- Tombs and the fate ...
https://biblehub.com/library/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_4/chapter_iisyria_at_the_beginning.htm
... 10. Jehu destroyed the guilty house of Ahab, and the powerful hierarchy of Baal and Astarte, in obedience to God's command. Why, then, was this blood to be avenged ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/rowland/divine_retribution.htm
... (fondly as) they do their children." groves- rather, "images of Astarte," the goddess of the heavenly hosts, represented as a sacred tree, such as ...
https://biblehub.com/library/jamieson/commentary_critical_and_explanatory_on_the_whole_bible/jer_17_1-27_the_jews_inveterate.htm
... of heathenism. The worship of the "queen of heaven" (the female representative - Astarte - of the nature principle, of which Baal is the male principle) could not but ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/muir/idolatry_a_detailed_insult_to_jehovah.htm
... of worship or the source of authority. Baal was worshipped in the high places, and Astarte in the groves. In other words, confidence in one's own power, or contentment with ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/rowland/god's_yearning_over_rebels.htm
... daughters .. commit whoredom .. spouses .. adultery- in the polluted worship of Astarte, the Phoenician goddess of love. 14. I will not punish .. daughters- ...
https://biblehub.com/library/jamieson/commentary_critical_and_explanatory_on_the_whole_bible/ho_4_1-19_henceforth_the_prophet.htm
... is God. This must have been as a protest against the idolatry, the Baal and Astarte worship, with which Israel had been infected and polluted. Samuel named his other son Abiah ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/ryley/a_king_instead_of_a_god.htm
... inscriptions, representing the hosts of heaven (" Saba"), answering to Ashteroth or Astarte, the queen of heaven, as Baal or Bel is the king. Hence the expression ...
https://biblehub.com/library/jamieson/commentary_critical_and_explanatory_on_the_whole_bible/isa_17_1-11_prophecy_concerning_damascus.htm
... of "power," and was worshipped in mountains and high places. Ashtaroth, the Astarte of the Greeks, the Venus of the Romans, was worshipped in the groves, under ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/rowland/insensibility_the_result_of_impenitence.htm
... and Greek; the word means heathen. She was one of those that worship Baal and Astarte. II. IN HER CASE OBSERVE THE WORKINGS OF SORROW. That from the outset there ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/glover/a_woman_of_canaan.htm
... an image of Moloch. Others are of opinion that it was an image of Asherah or Astarte, which is mentioned in 2 Kings 21:7 ; 2 Kings 23:4 , ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/jones/the_vision_of_the_image_of_jealousy.htm
... customs. While the nobles and citizens of Thebes were adopting the imported worship of Baal and Astarte, and were introducing into the spoken and written language words borrowed from Semitic speech, the ...
https://biblehub.com/library/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_6/chapter_iithe_rise_of_the.htm
... had been more impressed by Egyptian influence than many others. [Illustration: 259.jpg THE AMORITE ASTARTE] Drawn by Paucher-Gudin, from the squeezes and sketches published in the Zeitschrift ties Palcistina-Vereins. ...
https://biblehub.com/library/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_6/chapter_iiithe_hebrews_and_the.htm
... had gone away from their God, and had set up the abominable worship of Baal and Astarte, the idols of the Phoenicians and other heathen nations by whom they were surrounded. I ...
https://biblehub.com/library/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_37_1891/three_decisive_steps.htm
... to be built to Baal in Samaria itself; and an oracular grove to be consecrated to Astarte. See (1 Kings 18:19) One of Ahab's chief tastes was for splendid ...
https://biblehub.com/library/hitchcock/smiths_bible_dictionary/letter_a.htm
... of society, or fashion, or worldly prudence. We may be practical worshippers of the Astarte of licentiousness, — sacrificing health, fortune, friendship, nobleness at the shrine of lust ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/finlayson/chambers_of_imagery.htm
... identifies Bel with the planet Jupiter, which, with the planet Venus (under the name Astarte or Astaroth), was worshipped in the East as the god of fortune, the most ...
https://biblehub.com/library/jamieson/commentary_critical_and_explanatory_on_the_whole_bible/isa_46_1-13_babylons_idols_could.htm
... the gorgeous ritual of Baal-worship had impressed and awed her senses, and under the terror of Astarte, the lover of blood, she had lived and cowered. Yet it is in her ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/grant/the_widow_of_zarephath.htm
... twenty miles east of the Sea of Galilee. The name itself is that of the goddess Astarte, and Qarnayim means "of the two horns"; perhaps Astarte as goddess of the ...
https://biblehub.com/library/leupold/exposition_of_genesis_volume_1/chapter_xiv.htm
... races whose vitiated blood runs through their veins, the Israelites turn towards Moloch, Baal, Astarte. Then the prophet argues, struggles, waxes indignant, implores; he shows the inanity ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/bersier/the_first_and_the_last.htm
... worshipped, and you behold at the present hour the abominations of Venus, Baal, and Astarte. Shame is one of the first feelings of childhood, as well as one of the ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/graham/degradation_of_the_heathen.htm
... ; [1730] the Epidaurians, Æsculapius; the Chaldæans; Belus; the Syrians, Astarte; the Taurians, Diana; the Gauls, Mercurius; the Romans, all divinities. ...
https://biblehub.com/library/felix/the_octavius_of_minucius_felix/chapter_vi_argument_the_object_of.htm
... and Assyrian mythologies. In-addition to altars to Baal, crowning the high places, statues of Astarte were erected amid the groves of Terebinth. This latter goddess seemed to have been adopted by ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/macduff/a_royal_manifesto.htm
... the wicked are cruel. Of all the gods they had served, Baal, Molech, Astarte, etc., not one could deliver them. Only Jehovah can hear, and to ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/muir/immediate_and_effectual_retribution.htm
... hardly penetrate into minds besotted with wine, whoredom, and the unholy rites of Baal and Astarte worship. In our own land of Bibles and churches, what dense ignorance of God and ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/orr/priests_and_people.htm
