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Pagan Deities in the Old Testament

Deity

Worshiped in

References

Adrammelech

Sepharvaim

2 Kgs 17:31

Amon

Egypt

Jer 46:25; Nah 3:8

Anammelech

Sepharvaim

2 Kgs 17:31

Apis

Egypt

Jer 46:15

Asherah

Canaan

Deut 7:5; 16:21; Judg 6:25–30; 1 Kgs 15:13; 16:33; 18:19; 2 Kgs 13:6; 17:16; 18:4; 21:3, 7; 23:4–15; 2 Chr 15:16, etc.

Ashima

Hamath

2 Kgs 17:30

Ashtoreth/Astarte/Ishtar/“Queen of Heaven”

Assyria, Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, Phoenicia

Judg 2:13; 10:6; 1 Sam 7:3–4; 12:10; 31:10; 1 Kgs 11:5, 33; 2 Kgs 11:5; Jer 7:18; 44:17–19, 25

Baal

Canaan

Num 22:41; 25:3; Judg 2:11; 6:25–32; 1 Sam 7:4; 12:10; 1 Kgs 16:31–32; 18:25–26; 2 Kgs 3:2; 10:26–28; 2 Chr 17:3; 23:17; Jer 2:8; 7:9; 19:5; Hos 2:8, 13; 11:2; Zeph 1:4, etc.

Baal-zebub

Philistia

2 Kgs 1:2, 3, 6, 16

Bel/Marduk

Babylon

Isa 46:1; Jer 50:2; 51:44

Chemosh

Moab

Num 21:29; Judg 11:24; 1 Kgs 11:7, 33; 2 Kgs 23:13; Jer 48:7, 13, 46

Dagon

Philistia

Judg 16:23; 1 Sam 5:2–7; 1 Chr 10:10

Kaiwan

Babylon

Am 5:26

Milcom

Ammon

1 Kgs 11:5, 33; 2 Kgs 23:13; Jer 49:1, 3; Zeph 1:5

Molech

Ammon

Lev 18:21; 20:2–5; 1 Kgs 11:7; 2 Kgs 23:10: Jer 32:35

Nebo

Babylon

Isa 46:1

Nergal

Cuth

2 Kgs 17:30

Nibhaz

Ivvah

2 Kgs 17:31

Nisroch

Assyria

2 Kgs 19:37; Isa 37:38

Rimmon/Hadad-rimmon

Aram

2 Kgs 5:18; Zech 12:11

Sakkuth

Babylon

Am 5:26

Succoth-benoth

Babylon

2 Kgs 17:30

Tammuz

Babylon, Sumer

Ezek 8:14

Tartak

Ivvah

2 Kgs 17:31

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