Church of the Tithes
All emerging from Rev. 17-19
A tithe church a church without, devoid of, lacking, with no, exclusive of, not including, Jesus Christ!
The pit, Prostitutes, rebellion, uprising, revolution, insubordination, riot, insurrection, insubordination, disobedience, breaking the rules, naughtiness, waywardness.
Here is an history brief of the prosperity tithing formula concept giving an healthier look at what is the source of the “concept” and emergency. This is the construction of “churches” as Prostitute mother churches, daughters, shepherd covering, centre, denominations, catholicism and similarities!
As for biblical understanding of Tithing go to: missionoc on You Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/missionoc#p/c/9FCDF470FED776F2
Upp 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
G3611 a habitation, occupancy, possession, occupation, tenancy, locale, territory, habitat, haunt, trouble, disturb, irk, worry, bother, preoccupy, disturb, appear, hang around in, frequent, visit, revisit, go to regularly, rendezvous, hangout, stomping ground, meeting place, gathering place, convention center, meeting, gathering, conference, reunion, get-together, caucus, rule, principle, standard, custom, law, practice, agreement, pact, resolution, contract, settlement, center, sociable, environment, surroundings, setting, background, conditions, upbringing, circumstances, credentials, education, training, identification, ID, milieu, scene, context, situation etc.
oikeō dwell
From G3624; to occupy a house that is, reside (figuratively inhabit, remain, inhere); by implication to cohabit: - dwell. See also G3625.
Cohabit - share a house, have a joint household, live together, share, split, go halves, contribute to, divide, divide up, carve up, assign, allocate, distribute, portion, communicate, let somebody in on, impart, reveal, disclose, bit, piece, part, portion, segment, cut, stake, sample, instance, occurrence, model, mock-up, replica, copy, reproduction, representation, sculpt, mold, form, shape, fashion, develop, type, sort, style, kind, brand, version, mode, genre, archetypal, prototypical, example, paradigm, pattern, archetype, exemplar, epitome, essence, embodiment, quintessence, archetype, personification, image, embodiment, characterization, distillation, representation, case, example, picture, representation, icon, figure, likeness, illustration, reflection, copy, idea, vision, air, aura, view, impression, picture, aura, the way you are seen, appearance, look, persona, character, front, face, façade, character, personality, assumed role,etc.
G3624
Oikos family, home, house, household, temple
Of uncertain affinity; a dwelling (more or less extensive, literally or figuratively); by implication a family (more or less related, literally or figuratively): - home, house (-hold), temple.
G3625
oikoumenē earth, world see ecumenical
Feminine participle present passive of G3611 (as noun, by implication of G1093); land, that is, the (terrene part of the) globe; specifically the Roman empire: - earth, world.
G1093
Contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application): - country, earth (-ly), ground, land, world.
Ecumenical
c.1570, formed in Eng. as an ecclesiastical word, as if from L. oecumenicus "general, universal," from Gk. oikoumenikos, from he oikoumene ge "the inhabited world (as known to the ancient Greeks); the Greeks and their neighbors considered as developed human society," from oikoumenos, pr. passive participle of oikein "inhabit," from oikos "house, habitation" (see villa).
Villa
1611, from It. villa "country house, villa, farm," from L. villa "country house, farm," related to vicus "village, group of houses," from PIE *weik- "clan" (cf. Skt. vesah "house," vit "dwelling, house, settlement;" Avestan vis "house, village, clan;" O.Pers. vitham "house, royal house;" Gk. oikos "house;" O.C.S. visi "village;" Goth. weihs "village;" Lith. viešpats "master of the house").
G1142
daimōn demon, devil
From δαίω daiō (to distribute fortunes); a demon or super natural spirit (of a bad nature): - devil.
To distribute fortunes – destiny, fate, wealth, riches, affluence, opulence, prosperity success richness, material comfort, privileged circumstances, poverty,
Hold (φυλακὴ)
See on 1Pe_3:19, and see on Act_5:21. Rev., in margin, prison.
John Wesley
Upp 18:2 And he cried, Babylon is fallen - This fall was mentioned before, Rev_14:8; but is now declared at large. And is become an habitation - A free abode. Of devils, and an hold - A prison. Of every unclean spirit - Perhaps confined there where they had once practised all uncleanness, till the judgment of the great day. How many horrid inhabitants hath desolate Babylon! of invisible beings, devils, and unclean spirits; of visible, every unclean beast, every filthy and hateful bird. Suppose, then, Babylon to mean heathen Rome; what have the Romanists gained, seeing from the time of that destruction, which they say is past, these are to be its only inhabitants for ever.
Scofield
Upp 18:2
Babylon
Babylon, "confusion," is repeatedly used by the prophets in a symbolic sense
(See Scofield) - (Isa_13:2), note 2.
Two "Babylons" are to be distinguished in the Revelation: ecclesiastical babylon, which is apostate Christendom, headed up under the Papacy; and political babylon, which is the Beast's confederated empire, the last form of Gentile world-dominion.
Ecclesiastical Babylon is "the great whore" (Rev_17:1) and is destroyed by political Babylon (Rev_17:15-18) that the beast may be the alone object of worship. (2Th_2:3); (2Th_2:4); (Rev_13:15). The power of political Babylon is destroyed by the return of the Lord in glory.
(See "Armageddon,"); (Rev_16:14); (Rev_19:17).
The notion of a literal Babylon to be rebuilt on the site of ancient Babylon is in conflict with (Isa_13:19-22). But the language of (Rev_18:10); (Rev_18:16); (Rev_18:18) seems beyond question to identify "Babylon," the "city" of luxury and traffic, with "Babylon" the ecclesiastical centre, namely, Rome. The very kings who hate ecclesiastical Babylon deplore the destruction of commercial Babylon.
Here is links from Wikipendia church of the tithes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Tithes
Tithe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe
A tithe (from Old English teogoþa "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a (usually) voluntary contribution or as a tax or levy, usually to support a religious organization.
Today, tithes (or tithing) are normally voluntary and paid in cash, cheques, or stocks, whereas historically tithes could be paid in kind, such as agricultural products.
Several European countries operate a formal process linked to the tax system allowing some churches to assess tithes.
"Tithing" also has unrelated economic and juridical senses, dating back to the Early Middle Ages.
See "Tithing (country subdivision)".
The Esretu — the standard Babylonian one-tenth tax
Hebrew is a Semitic language, related to Akkadian, the lingua franca of that time. An Akkadian noun that Abraham was most likely familiar with given his Babylonian background was esretu, meaning "one-tenth". By the time of Abraham, this phrase was used to refer to the "one-tenth tax," or "tithe". Listed below are some specific instances of the Mesopotamian tithe, taken from The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Vol. 4 "E":
[Referring to a ten per cent tax levied on garments by the local ruler:] "the palace has taken eight garments as your tithe (on 85 garments)"
"…eleven garments as tithe (on 112 garments)"
"...(the sun-god) Shamash demands the tithe..."
Check this for further reading on Shamash - the Sun god, Sin generally takes precedence of Shamash, it is in relationship, presumably, to the moon-god that the sun-god appears as the dependent power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamash
Shamash in the synagogue:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabbi
2Ku 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
Grove
H842
From H833; happy; asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same: - grove. Compare H6253.
H833
A primitive root; to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively to go forward, be honest, prosper: - (call, be) bless (-ed, happy), go, guide, lead, relieve.
H6253
Probably for H6251; Ashtoreth, the Phoenician goddess of love (and increase): - Ashtoreth.
H6251
Probably from H6238; increase: - flock.
H6238
A primitive root; properly to accumulate; chiefly (specifically) to grow (causatively make) rich: - be (-come, en-, make, make self, wax) rich, make [H1 Kings H22 : H48 margin]. See H6240.
H48
From H1 and H7311; father of height (that is, lofty); Abiram, the name of two Israelites: - Abiram.
H1
A primitive word; father in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application: - chief, (fore-) father ([-less]), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in “Abi-”
H7311
A primitive root; to be high actively to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively): - bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high (-er, one), hold up, levy, lift (-er) up, (be) lofty, (X a-) loud, mount up, offer (up), + presumptuously, (be) promote (-ion), proud, set up, tall (-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.
H6240
For H6235; ten (only in combination), that is, the “teens”; also (ordinal) a “teenth”: - [eigh-, fif-, four-, nine-, seven-, six-, thir-] teen (-th), + eleven (-th), + sixscore thousand, + twelve (-th).
H6235
From H6237; ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits): - ten, [fif-, seven-] teen.
H6237
A primitive root (identical with H6238); to accumulate; but used only as denominative from H6235; to tithe, that is, take or give a tenth: - X surely, give (take) the tenth, (have, take) tithe (-ing, -s), X truly.
H6238
A primitive root; properly to accumulate; chiefly (specifically) to grow (causatively make) rich: - be (-come, en-, make, make self, wax) rich, make [H1 Kings H22 : H48 margin]. See H6240.
2Ki 23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
2Ki 23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
2Ku 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
2Ki 23:8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
2Ku 23:9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
2Ki 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
2Ki 23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
2Ki 23:12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
2Ku 23:13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
2Ki 23:14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
2Ki 23:15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
2Ki 23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
2Ki 23:17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
2Ki 23:18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
2Ku 23:19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
2Ku 23:20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
2Ki 23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
2Ki 23:22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
2Ki 23:23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
2Ki 23:24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
2Ki 23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
2Ki 23:26 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
2Ku 23:27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
2Ki 23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2Ki 23:29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
Apg 7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
Apg 7:36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
Apg 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
Apg 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Apg 7:39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Apg 7:40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Apg 7:41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Apg 7:42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Apg 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
"four minas of silver, the tithe of [the gods] Bel, Nabu, and Nergal..."
"...he has paid, in addition to the tithe for Ninurta, the tax of the gardiner"
"...the tithe of the chief accountant, he has delivered it to [the sun-god] Shamash"
"...why do you not pay the tithe to the Lady-of-Uruk?"
"...(a man) owes barley and dates as balance of the tithe of the **years three and four"
"...the tithe of the king on barley of the town..."
"...with regard to the elders of the city whom (the king) has **summoned to (pay) tithe..."
"...the collector of the tithe of the country Sumundar..."
"...(the official Ebabbar in Sippar) who is in charge of the tithe..."
Because of this standard one-tenth tax in Babylon, Abraham of the Genesis account was most likely familiar with the concept of giving up ten-percent of goods as tax
The Church of the Tithes or Church of the Dormition of the Virgin
(Ukrainian:Десятинна Церква, Desiatynna Tserkva; Russian: Десятинная Церковь, Desyatinnaya Tserkov') was the first stone church in Kiev. It was built by the order of Grand PrinceVladimir (Volodymyr) the Greatetween 989 and 996 by Byzantine and local workers to commemorate the Baptism of Kievan Rus' and was originally named the "Church of Our Lady", in honor of the Dormition of the Theotokos. Vladimir set aside a tithe of his income to finance the church construction, which gave the church its popular name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prince
Vladimir's significance and historical footprint
One of the largest Kievan cathedrals is dedicated to him. The University of Kiev was named after the man who Christianized Kievan Rus. There is the Russian Order of St. Vladimir and Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in the United States. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the feast day of St. Vladimir on 15 July.
His memory was also kept alive by innumerable Russian folk ballads and legends, which refer to him as Krasno Solnyshko, that is, the Fair Sun. With him the Varangian period of Eastern Slavic history ceases and the Christian period begins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_I_of_Kiev
between 989 and 996 by Byzantine and local workers to commemorate the Baptism of Kievan Rus' and was originally named the "Church of Our Lady", in honor of the Dormition of the Theotokos.
Vladimir set aside a tithe of his income to finance the church construction, which gave the church its popular name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormition_of_the_Theotokos
"Dormition of the Virgin" redirects here. For the El Greco painting of the same name, see
Dormition (formation) of the Virgin (El Greco).
The Dormition of the Theotokos (Greek: Κοίμησις Koímēsis, often anglicized as Kimisis) is a Great Feast of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches which commemorates the "falling asleep" or death of the Theotokos (Mary, the mother of Jesus; literally translated as God-bearer). It is celebrated on August 15 (August 28, N.S. for those following the Julian Calendar) as the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God. The Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the Dormition not on a fixed date, but on the Sunday nearest August 15.
History
By Vladimir's order, the remains of his grandmother Princess Olga, the first Christian ruler of Rus', were reburied in this church. Vladimir and his wife, Princess Anna, the sister of Byzantine Emperor Basil II, were also buried in the Church of the Tithes.
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Emperor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nicholas -victory of the people
The church was used by Kievans as the last refuge while the city was being ravaged by the hordes of Batu Khan in 1240, when it finally collapsed from fire. Chernihiv's Saviour Cathedral (1036) is an extant structure supposed to reproduce the dimensions and exterior appearance of the original Church of the Tithes.
Appearance - (look, form, manifestation, outer shell, façade, outward show, emergence, development, arrival, growth, beginning, advent, disappearance, loss, desertion, departure, fading, evaporation, vanishing)
In the 1630s the wooden church of St. Nicholas (victory of the people) was erected on the site by initiative of Kiev metropolitan Peter Mogila (Mohyla). Between 1828 and 1842, by the order of the Russian administration, a new stone Church of the Tithes was built to a design by Vasily Stasov, completely different from its original style. In 1935 the church was destroyed by the Soviet authorities.
Reconstruction
A controversial plan to rebuild the church is currently under active consideration in Kiev. Proponents of reconstruction point out the historical and political importance of rebuilding a church of unchallenged significance in the history of all East Slavic people. Opponents refer to the lack of any documentary descriptions or depictions of the original church, and that excavations were unable to determine even the layout of its foundation. Besides, the monumental building of the new church is likely to be in disharmony with the delicate 18th-century St. Andrew's Church, one of the most famous landmarks of Kiev, located adjacent to the original location of the destroyed Church of the Tithes. Its reconstruction would also require the destruction of the city's oldest tree, a 370-year old linden.
See excavation - (pits, supply, source, wealth, abundance dig out, unearth, hollow out, bury)
More readings about byzantine and how it became Catholic –all embracing, common, ecumenical etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_diplomacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_dress
Ecumenical: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical
Charismatic movement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charismatic_Movement
Charismatic renewal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Charismatic_Renewal
All emerging from Rev. 17-19
A tithe church a church without, devoid of, lacking, with no, exclusive of, not including, Jesus Christ!
More interesting reading concerning , with reference, in the region of, around, nearly, approaching, see spellbinder, wicca
A key belief in Wicca is that the goddesses and gods are able to manifest in personal form, most importantly through the bodies of Priestesses and Priests. The latter kind of manifestation is the purpose of the ritual of Drawing down the Moon (or Drawing down the Sun), whereby the Goddess is called to descend into the body of the Priestess (or the God into the Priest) to effect divine possession.
According to Gardner, the gods of Wicca are ancient gods of the British Isles: a Horned God and a Great Mother goddess. Gardner also states that a being higher than any of these tribal gods is recognised by the witches as Prime Mover, but remains unknowable.
Psa 35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Without cause – H2600
From H2580; gratis, that is, devoid of cost, reason or advantage: - without a cause (cost, wages), causeless, to cost nothing, free (-ly), innocent, for nothing (nought), in vain.
In vain – abortive, failed, disastrous, catastrophic, unfortunate, doomed, ill-starred, dreadful, futile, wasted, shattered, emaciated, cadaverous, pointless, useless, waste, worthless, conceited, proud, narcissistic, vainglorious, arrogant, self-important, bigheaded, inflated, pompous, arrogant, pretentious, haughty, snobbish, portentous, showy, flaunting, spectacular, magnificent, grand, self-opinionated, overbearing, overconfident, full of yourself, self-satisfied, self-centered, self-absorbed, egocentric, self-important,
They hid for me – H2934
A primitive root; to hide (by covering over): - hide, lay privily, in secret.
Their net – H7568
From H3423; a net (as catching animals): - net [-work].
Net – web, netting, network, mesh, lattice, grid, remaining, catch, achieve, earn, make, clear, make a profit of, income, profits, takings, proceeds, wages, salary, pay packet, take-home pay, earnings, revenue, proceeds, turnover, gain, profit, return, yield, takings, advantage, gain, benefit, use, reward, good, make money on, turn a profit, earn, bring in, benefit, gain, be of advantage to, help, aid, serve,
H3423
A primitive root; to occupy (be driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin: - cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive (-ing) out, enjoy, expel, X without fail, (give to, leave for) inherit (-ance, -or), + magistrate, be (make) poor, come to poverty, (give to, make to) possess, get (have) in (take) possession, seize upon, succeed, X utterly.
In a pit - H7845
From H7743; a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively destruction: - corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.
H7843
A primitive root; to decay, that is, (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively): - batter, cast off, corrupt (-er, thing), destroy (-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, X utterly, waste (-r).
they have digged -H2658
A primitive root; properly to pry into; by implication to delve, to explore: - dig, paw, search out, seek.
For my soul -H5315
From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental): - any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead (-ly), desire, X [dis-] contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart (-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortality, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
H5314
A primitive root; to breathe; passively, to be breathed upon, that is, (figuratively) refreshed (as if by a current of air): - (be) refresh selves (-ed).
Psa 35:7
without: Psa_7:3-5, Psa_25:3, Psa_64:4; Joh_15:25
hid: Psa_9:15, Psa_119:85, Psa_140:5; Job_18:8
Ashtoreth
An idol of the Philistines, Zidonians, and Phenicians.
Probably identical with Queen of Heaven
Jer_7:18
Worshiped by Israelites
Jdg_2:13; Jdg_10:6; 1Sa_7:3-4; 1Sa_12:10; 1Ki_11:5; 1Ki_11:33; 2Ki_23:13
Temple of
1Sa_31:10
High places of, at Jerusalem, destroyed
2Ki_23:13
Fausset
Ashtoreth
Ashtoreth
flocks; sheep; riches
(same as Ashtaroth)
See Rev. 1-3 Baal, Bileam, Baalam, Jezabel, Laodicea, Satans seat, etc
1Ti 5:15 For some are already turned aside after Satan.
Rev 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Rev 2:13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
Rev 2:24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
Upp 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Rev 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Rev 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Rev 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Rev 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Rev 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
The chief goddess of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the male. By the plural (ASHTAROTH, Baalim: Jdg_10:6; 1Sa_7:4) different phases of the same deity, according to the different places of worship, are indicated. Always plural until under Solomon Ashtoreth or Astarte of Zidon was introduced (1Ki_11:5; 1Ki_11:3). She appears among the Philistines as the idol in whose temple they hung up Saul's armor (1Sa_31:10). She is identified as Ishtar or Nana, the planetary Venus among the Assyrian gods in inscriptions. Her name appears also in Cyprian and Carthaginian monuments; and on the sarcophagus of a king Esmunazar, who restored her temple at Zidon, along with his mother her priestess, Am-ashtoreth. She partly represents the planet Venus, partly the moon, "the queen of heaven" (Jer_7:18; Jer_44:17-18). (See ASHTEROTH-KARNAIM)
Our "star," Greek " aster," Latin stella, is akin. Her worship was most licentious and abominable; closely connected with that of (See ASHERAH, "THE GROVE".
Ashtoreh is the goddess, asherah "the grove," the image or the symbol of the goddess, of wood; asher, yashar, "to be straight," a straight stem of a tree living, or fixed upright (1Ki_18:19; 2Ki_21:7; 2Ki_23:6; 2Ki_23:13-14; 2Ki_23:15; Jdg_6:25; Jdg_6:30). The "bringing out the asherah from the house of the Lord," and the "cutting down," suit such a symbol, not a grace in our sense. The active and passive powers of nature, generative and receptive, suggested the male and female deities, Baal and Ashtoreh. The ewes of a flock were called Ashteroth on this principle, propagating the flock (Deu_7:13).
The earliest worship of apostasy was that of the sun, moon, etc. This naturally was grafted on idol worship, Baal sometimes being the sun god, sometimes distinct (2Ki_23:5). So Ashtoreh and the moon. The stone pillar was the symbol of Baal, as the sacred tree was the symbol of Ashtoreh; stone marking his strength as the male, the tree her fruitfulness (Deu_16:21). The sacred tree constantly accompanies the gods in the Assyrian monuments. In the Moabite Dibon stone the male form Astar is prefixed to Chamos or Chemosh, answering to the female Astarte. Identical with Athtar or Athtor of the Himyeritic inscriptions, and Estar of the Ninevite inscriptions; the Canaanite form of the male Aphroditos answering to the female Aphrodite.
ISBE
Ashtoreth
ash´to-reth, ash-tō reth (עשׁתּרת, ‛ashtōreth; plural עשׁתּרות, ‛ashtārōth; Ἀσταρτῆ, Astartḗ):
Name and Origin
Attributes of the Goddess
Ashtoreth as a Moon-Goddess
The Local Ashtaroth
1. Name and Origin
The name of the supreme goddess of Canaan and the female counterpart of Baal.
The name and cult of the goddess were derived from Babylonia, where Ishtar represented the evening and morning stars and was accordingly androgynous in origin. Under Semitic influence, however, she became solely female, but retained a memory of her primitive character by standing, alone among the Assyro-Bab goddesses, on a footing of equality with the male divinities.
From Babylonia the worship of the goddess was carried to the Semites of the West, and in most instances the feminine suffix was attached to her name; where this was not the case the deity was regarded as a male.
On the Moabite Stone, for example, 'Ashtar is identified with Chemosh, and in the inscriptions of southern Arabia 'Athtar is a god. On the other hand, in Atar-gatis or Derketo (2 Macc 12:26), Atar, without the feminine suffix, is identified with the goddess 'Athah or 'Athi (Greek Gatis). The cult of the Greek Aphrodı́tē in Cyprus was borrowed from that of Ashtoreth; whether the Greek name also is a modification of Ashtoreth, as has often been maintained, is doubtful.
Hes 8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
2. Attributes of the Goddess
In Babylonia and Assyria Ishtar was the goddess of love and war. An old Babylonian legend related how the descent of Ishtar into Hades in search of her dead husband, Tammuz, was followed by the cessation of marriage and birth in both earth and heaven, while the temples of the goddess at Nineveh and Arbela, around which the two cities afterward grew up, were dedicated to her as the goddess of war. As such she appeared to one of Assur-bani-pal's seers and encouraged the Assyrian king to march against Elam.
The other goddesses of Babylonia, who were little more than reflections of the god, tended to merge into Ishtar who thus became a type of the female divinity, a personification of the productive principle in nature, and more especially the mother and creatress of mankind.
The chief seat of the worship of Ishtar in Babylonia was Erech, where prostitution was practiced in her name, and she was served with immoral rites by bands of men and women. In Assyria, where the warlike side of the goddess was predominant, no such rites seem to have been practiced, and, instead, prophetesses were attached to her temples to whom she delivered oracles.
3. Ashtoreth as a Moon-Goddess
In Canaan, Ashtoreth, as distinguished from the male 'Ashtar, dropped her warlike attributes, but in contradistinction to Ashērāh, whose name and cult had also been imported from Assyria, became, on the one hand, the colorless consort of Baal, and on the other hand, a moon-goddess. In Babylonia the moon was a god, but after the rise of the solar theology, when the larger number of the Babylonian gods were resolved into forms of the sun-god, their wives also became solar, Ishtar, “the daughter of Sin” the moon-god, remaining identified with the evening-star. In Canaan, however, when the solar theology had absorbed the older beliefs, Baal, passing into a sun-god and the goddess who stood at his side becoming a representative of the moon - the pale reflection, as it were, of the sun - Ashtoreth came to be regarded as the consort of Baal and took the place of the solar goddesses of Babylonia.
4. The Local Ashtaroth
Hence there were as “many Ashtoreths” or Ashtaroth as Baals. They represented the various forms under which the goddess was worshipped in different localities (Jdg_10:6; 1Sa_7:4; 1Sa_12:10, etc.). Sometimes she was addressed as Naamah, “the delightful one,” Greek Astro-noē, the mother of Eshmun and the Cabeiri. The Philistines seem to have adopted her under her warlike form (1Sa_31:10 the King James Version reading “Ashtoreth,” as Septuagint), but she was more usually the moon-goddess (Lucian, De Dea Syriac., 4; Herodian, v.6, 10), and was accordingly symbolized by the horns of a cow. See ASHTAROTH-KARNAIM. Ashteroth Karnaim
An ancient city of Palestine taken by Chedorlaomer.
Gen_14:5
At Ashkelon, where Herodotus (i.105) places her most ancient temple, she was worshipped under the name of Atar-gatis, as a woman with the tail of a fish, and fish were accordingly sacred to her. Elsewhere the dove was her sacred symbol. The immoral rites with which the worship of Ishtar in Babylonia was accompanied were transferred to Canaan (Deu_23:18) and formed part of the idolatrous practices which the Israelites were called upon to extirpate.
5Mo 23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
5Mo 23:18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
5Mo 23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
5Mo 23:20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
TAMMUZ [ISBE]
TAMMUZ - tam'-uz, tam'-mooz (tammuz; Thammouz):
(1) The name of a Phoenician deity, the Adonis of the Greeks. He was originally a Sumerian or Babylonian sun-god, called Dumuzu, the husband of Ishtar, who corresponds to Aphrodite of the Greeks. The worship of these deities was introduced into Syria in very early times under the designation of Tammuz and Astarte, and appears among the Greeks in the myth of Adonis and Aphrodite, who are identified with Osiris and Isis of the Egyptian pantheon, showing how widespread the cult became.
The Babylonian myth represents Dumuzu, or Tammuz, as a beautiful shepherd slain by a wild boar, the symbol of winter. Ishtar long mourned for him and descended into the underworld to deliver him from the embrace of death (Frazer, Adonis, Attis and Osiris). This mourning for Tammuz was celebrated in Babylonia by women on the 2nd day of the 4th month, which thus acquired the name of Tammuz (see CALENDAR).
This custom of weeping for Tammuz is referred to in the Bible in the only passage where the name occurs (Ezek 8:14). The chief seat of the cult in Syria was Gebal (modern Gebail, Greek Bublos) in Phoenicia, to the South of which the river Adonis (Nahr Ibrahim) has its mouth, and its source is the magnificent fountain of Apheca (modern `Afqa), where was the celebrated temple of Venus or Aphrodite, the ruins of which still exist. The women of Gebal used to repair to this temple in midsummer to celebrate the death of Adonis or Tammuz, and there arose in connection with this celebration those licentious rites which rendered the cult so infamous that it was suppressed by Constantine the Great.
The name Adonis, by which this deity was known to the Greeks, is none other than the Phoenician 'Adhon, which is the same in Hebrew. His death is supposed to typify the long, dry summer of Syria and Palestine, when vegetation perishes, and his return to life the rainy season when the parched earth is revivified and is covered with luxuriant vegetation, or his death symbolizes the cold, rough winter, the boar of the myth, and his return the verdant spring.
Considering the disgraceful and licentious rites with which the cult was celebrated, it is no wonder that Ezekiel should have taken the vision of the women weeping for Tammuz in the temple as one of the greatest abominations that could defile the Holy House.
See ADONIS.
(2) The fourth month of the Jewish year, corresponding to July. The name is derived from that of a Syrian god, identified with Adonis (Ezek 8:14).
See above, and CALENDAR.
H. Porter
Also see definition of "Tammuz" in Word Study
Hes 8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
H3427 sat
A primitive root; properly to sit down (specifically as judge, in ambush, in quiet); by implication to dwell, to remain; causatively to settle, to marry: - (make to) abide (-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell (-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit (-ant), make to keep [house], lurking, X marry (-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set (-tle), (down-) sit (-down, still, -ting down, -ting [place] -uate), take, tarry.
Hes 8:2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
Hes 8:3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
Jealousy – envy, covetousness, greed, greediness, gluttony, voracity, ravenousness, insatiability, greed, gluttony, ravenousness, insatiability, voracity, desire, craving, longing, hunger, appetite, wish, passion, stinginess, miserliness, parsimoniousness, meanness, nastiness, cruelty, callousness, spitefulness, malice, heartlessness, cold-bloodedness, mercilessness, unkindness, pitilessness, greediness, selfishness, tightfistedness, hunger, self-indulgence, decadence, hedonism, self-pity, abandon, desert, leave, forsake, leave behind, walk out on, cancel, give up, stop, call off, end, recklessness, lack of control, excess, immoderation, lawlessness, anarchy, chaos, disorder, mayhem, free-for-all, brawl, brouhaha, riot, scuffle, commotion, set-to, get on with it, put your shoulder to the wheel, get on with it, lack of responsibility, lack of restraint, lack of inhibition, materialism, acquisitiveness, avariciousness, cupidity, resentment, suspicion, distrust, protectiveness, etc.
Hes 8:4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
Hes 8:5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
Hes 8:6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
Hes 8:7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
Hes 8:8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
Hes 8:9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Hes 8:10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
Hes 8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
Hes 8:12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
Hes 8:13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.
Hes 8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
Hes 8:15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
Hes 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
Hes 8:17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
Hes 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Adonis
ADONIS [ISBE]
ADONIS - a-do'-nis: A name for the Babylonian god TAMMUZ, which see. The word occurs only in the English Revised Version, margin of Isa 17:10, where for "pleasant plants" is read "plantings of Adonis." The the American Standard Revised Version rightly omits this marginal suggestion.
Also see definition of "Adonis" in Word Study
KJV Jes 17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
BBE Isa 17:10 For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;
NKJV Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold, Therefore you will plant pleasant plants And set out foreign seedlings;
Jes 17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
H2232 shalt set it with
A primitive root; to sow; figuratively to disseminate, plant, fructify: - bear, conceive seed, set with, sow (-er), yield.
Conceive – imagine, envisage, visualize, envision, picture, conjure up, consider, regard, think of, look on, perceive, create, formulate, devise, form, invent, elaborate, think up, dream up, concoct, cook up, devise, plan, plot, contrive, prepare, throw together, rustle up, make, produce, come up with, produce, supply, find, get a hold of, procure, get your hands on, furnish, make up,etc.
Seed – Set against, Set as rivals, Set in opposition, Pit, Abyss, Ditch, Hollow, Well, Crater, Cavity, Depression, Trench, Germ, Kernel, Stone, Start, Starting point, basis, foundation, root, source, origin, heart, center, middle, fundamental, staple, underlying, essence, spirit, soul, self, being, heart, plug, sample, extract, interior, base hub, heart, core, midpoint, axis, interior, inside, foundation, base, seat, meeting point, gathering place, meeting place, hub, core, pivot, nucleus, crux, focus, focal point, focus, concentrate, fix, pinpoint, highlight, spotlight, scatter, periphery, edge, Beginning, Germ, Sow, Plant seeds, sow seed, etc.
H2114 strange
A primitive root; to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery: - (come from) another (man, place), fanner, go away, (e-) strange (-r, thing, woman).
Foreign, strange, - Distant, Far-off, Overseas, Strange, Unfamiliar, Unknown, Alien, Exotic, Outlandish, External, Irrelevant, Extraneous, Unrelated, odd, bizarre, eccentric, weird, weird and wonderful, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, peculiar, astonishing, perplexing, odd, curious, surprising, funny, queer, unexpected, remarkable, unfamiliar, foreign, alien, unknown, different, exotic, new, novel, mysterious, puzzling, mystifying, baffling, peculiar, weird, cagey, furtive, secretive, enigmatic, shadowy etc.
Seedlings - seedling, sprout, sapling, plantlet, grow, shoot, develop, bud, spring, germinate, evolve, take root, set in, inlay, insert, decorate, engrave, cut into, start, grow, become established, push, vegetate, burgeon, multiply, prosper, proliferate, flourish, grow rapidly, dwindle, mushroom, increase rapidly, swell, expand, flourish, thrive, spread out, proliferate, decline, expansive spacious, roomy sizeable, wide, sprawling, vast, extensive, narrow, broaden, widen, wide, ricochet, return, recuperate, bud, grow, develop, spring, pop up, spring up, rebound, spring back, bounce back, recover, improve, get better, pull through, pick up, perk up, awaken, liven up, spice up, spoil, cheer, enliven, brighten, come alive, look happier, cheer up, make more cheerful, depress, make happier, perk up, spice up, spoil, brighten up, get into the mood, feel better, start to enjoy yourself, recuperate, bound, recoil, shoot, bud, young branch, new growth, etc.
Rev 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
Rev 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Rev 9:11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Rev 17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Rev 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Rev 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Rev 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
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