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881 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.48
… the planet Saturn. According to the rabbins, his statue was of brass, with a human body but the head of an ox. On the Carthaginian worship of Moloch or Saturn, Diodorus …
882 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.49
… ," the planet Saturn. No. 176 rev. reads: "Last night Saturn drew near to the moon. Saturn is the star of the sun. This is the interpretation: it is lucky for the king. The …
883 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.50
… the planets (mazzaloth), and to all the host of heaven" ( 2 Kings 23:5 ). He also destroyed the 'asherah and he "defiled Topheth .... that no man might make his son or his daughter …
884 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.51
… translated "planets" in 2 Kings 23:5 is mazzaloth, closely akin to the mazzaroth of Job 38:32. This rendering probably reproduces correctly the meaning of the …
885 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.52
… the planets other than Saturn are not so clear. In Isaiah 65:11 two deities are apparently referred to: "Ye that forsake Yahweh, that forget my holy mountain …
886 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.53
… : The planet Venus is more distinctly referred to in Isaiah 14:12 : "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" (the King James Version). The word …
887 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.54
Mars and Mercury, the two remaining planets, are not mentioned as such in Old Testament, but the deities connected with them, Nergal = Mars ( 2 Kings 17:30 ) and Nebo = Mercury ( Isaiah 46:1 ), both occur.
888 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.56
… the planets were regarded as being 7 in number, but the idea that the number 7 derived its sacredness from this fact is an inversion of the true state of the …
889 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.57
… , each planet was used three times over on that day, and three planets were used a fourth time. The sun, the fourth planet, took therefore the first hour of the second …
890 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.58
… the planets (Shabbath, fol 156, Colossians 1 ). The above was spoken as a criticism of Rabbi Shimon Ben Laive who had written, "Whoever is born on the first day of …
891 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.61
… , the planets or the spirits supposed to preside over them, the powers that belong to God alone; it was and is essentially idolatrous. As one of the chief living …
892 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astronomy, I.91
… the planets. The celestial bodies could not be referred to in a more simple manner. And this simplicity is marred by no myth; there is not the faintest trace …
893 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astronomy, I.137
… our "planets," but either meteors or comets, more probably the latter, as meteors are more appropriately described as "falling stars."
894 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astronomy, II.20
… attendant planets was traveling rapidly through space, the German astronomer Madler hazarded the suggestion that the center of the sun's motion, the attracting …
895 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astronomy, II.23
… , translated "planets" in the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American), occurs in 2 Kings 23:5. For the latter see ASTROLOGY. In the fifth …
896 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astronomy, III.9
… a planet, held currency. But in order to express the Hebrew idea, raqia` should be rendered "expanse" or "space"; it corresponds to the "empty space" of Job 26:7. This …
897 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.52
… the planet Venus as she is in later times. She seems rather to have been a goddess of fruitfulness and of love, and in her temple at Uruk temple-prostitution …
898 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.54
… the planet Mercury.
899 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.55
… the planet Mars, though scholars who are attached to the astral theory (see below) think that he was identified at an earlier date with Saturn. For this view …
900 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.56
… the planet Saturn, called Kaitaann (Kewan, Chiun, Amos 5:26 the King James Version, the English Revised Version). As a god of vegetation he becomes also a god of …