Thematic Bible: Gods, false
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Ashtaroth » Ashtaroth or ashtoreth, a Goddess of the phoenicians
Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They worshiped the Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh and did not worship Him.
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The king also defiled the high places that were across from Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians; for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab; and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.
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For they have abandoned Me; they have bowed the knee to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and to carry out My statutes and My judgments as his father David did.
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for they abandoned Him and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.
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Samuel told them, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, get rid of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths that are among you, dedicate yourselves to the Lord, and worship only Him. Then He will rescue you from the hand of the Philistines.”
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Then they put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Baal-peor » Baal-peor, a God of the moabites
So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the Lord’s anger burned against Israel.
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Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.
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and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
like grapes in the wilderness.
I saw your fathers
like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to Baal-peor,
consecrated themselves to Shame,
and became detestable,
like the thing they loved.
Wasn’t the sin of Peor, which brought a plague on the Lord’s community, enough for us, so that we have not cleansed ourselves from it even to this day,
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites
“You are not to make any of your children pass through the fire to Molech. Do not profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.
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They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I had not commanded them. I had never entertained the thought that they do this detestable act causing Judah to sin!
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But you have taken up Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, images you have made for yourselves.
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and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship.
So I will deport you beyond Babylon!
He defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of Hinnom, so that no one could make his son or daughter pass through the fire to Molech.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Chemosh » Chemosh, a God of the moabites
The king also defiled the high places that were across from Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians; for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab; and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.
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you will be captured also.
Chemosh
with his priests and officials.
Isn’t it true that you may possess whatever your god Chemosh drives out for you, and we may possess everything the Lord our God drives out before us?
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You have been destroyed, people of Chemosh!
He gave up his sons as refugees,
and his daughters into captivity
to Sihon the Amorite king.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Dagon » Dagon, a God of the philistines
Now the Philistine leaders gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said:
Our god has handed over
our enemy Samson to us.
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our enemy Samson to us.
brought it into the temple of Dagon and placed it next to his statue.
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Then they put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his skull in the temple of Dagon.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Diana » Diana, a Goddess of the ephesians
For a person named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, provided a great deal of business for the craftsmen.
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However, when the city clerk had calmed the crowd down, he said, “Men of Ephesus! What man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple guardian of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell from heaven?
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When they had heard this, they were filled with rage and began to cry out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
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