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From memory, I remember there being a tradition that it was supposed to be a rather plain ring, and that it was specifically efficacious against Ashteroth.
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Ashteroth-Qarnayim and the Zuzim at Ham and the Emim in the plain of
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Zuzims dwelling in Ham, a place apparently to the south of Ashteroth
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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But under masculine dominance, Isis and Ashteroth dwindle away to an alluring Aphrodite -- not Womanhood for the child and the
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897
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Ashteroth of the two horns, the abode of the Rephaim (Gen. 14: 5).
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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(Ashteroth of the two horns or peaks) a place of very great antiquity, the abode of the Rephaim.
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Ashteroth (1Ki 18: 19), but seem (1Ki 22: 12) to have been false prophets, who conformed to the symbolic calf-worship of Jehovah.
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What with the sloth and idolatries of Baal and Ashteroth, which I see daily around me, I feel that without a protest not only the flesh but the spirit is mortified.
Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte 1869
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Gideon dispatched them quickly, and seized the ornaments that were on their camels 'necks, ornaments like the moon, so it is in the margin, either badges of their royalty or perhaps of their idolatry, for Ashteroth was represented by the moon, as Baal by the sun.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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Various godlings come along from time to time to challenge him, like Baal and Ashteroth, but in the end they are seen through as nothings who can hurt no one.
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