And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.
And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
Served Baal and Ashtaroth - In a general way, probably, Baal and Ashtaroth mean the sun and moon; but in many cases Ashtaroth seems to have been the same among the Canaanites as Venus was among the Greeks and Romans, and to have been worshipped with the same obscene rites.
2:13 Baal and Ashtaroth - That is, the sun and moon, whom many Heathens worshipped, tho' under divers names; and so they ran into that error which God had so expressly warned them against, 4:19 .Baalim signifies lords, and Ashtaroth, blessed ones, he - gods and she - gods. When they forsook Jehovah, they had gods many and lords many, as a luxuriant fancy pleased to multiply them.