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@jlh1182 | 4 November 12 | |
His great success in hunting (comp. Gen. x. 9) was due to the fact that he wore the coats of skin which God made for Adam and Eve (Gen. iii. 21). These coats were handed down from father to son, and thus came into the possession of Noah, who took them with him into the ark, whence they were stolen by Ham. The latter gave them to his son Cush, who in turn gave them to Nimrod, and when the animals saw the latter clad in them, they crouched before him so that he had no difficulty in catching them.
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@jlh1182 | 4 November 12 | |
According to another account, when Nimrod was eighteen years old, war broke out between the Hamites, his kinsmen, and the Japhethites. The latter were at first victorious, but Nimrod, at the head of a small army of Cus**tes, attacked and defeated them, after which he was made king over all the people on earth, appointing Terah his minister.
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@jlh1182 | 4 November 12 | |
It was then, elated by so much glory, that Nimrod changed his behavior toward Yhwh and became the most flagrant idolater. When informed of Abraham's birth he requested Terah to sell him the new-born child in order that he might kill it, Terah hid Abraham and in his stead brought to Nimrod the child of a slave, which Nimrod dashed to pieces (Sefer ha- Yashar,
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@visitor8 | 4 November 12 | |
And then nutzbaot comes ...
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@jlh1182 | 4 November 12 | |
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrolatry
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@jlh1182 | 4 November 12 | |
The Hebrew Bible contains repeated reference to astrolatry. Thus, Deuteronomy 4:19, 17:3 contains a stern warning against worshipping the sun, moon, stars or any of the heavenly host. Relapse into worshipping the host of heaven, i.e. the stars, is said to have been the cause of the fall of the kingdom of Judah in II Kings 17:16.
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@jlh1182 | 4 November 12 | |
King Josiah in 621 BC is recorded as having abolished all kinds of idolatry in Judah, but astrolatry was continued in private (Zeph. 1:5; Jer. 8:2, 19:13). Ezekiel (8:16) describes sun-worship practiced in the court of the temple of Jerusalem, and Jeremiah (44:17) claims that even after the destruction of the temple, women in particular insisted on continuing their worship of the 'queen of heaven'.
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@jlh1182 | 4 November 12 | |
Astrolatry is the worship of stars and other heavenly bodies as deities, or the association of deities with heavenly bodies. The most common instances of this are sun gods and moon gods in polytheistic systems worldwide. Also notable is the association of the planets with deities in Babylonian, and hence in Greco-Roman religion, viz. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
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@jlh1182 | 4 November 12 | |
Babylonian astronomy from early times associates stars with deities, but the heavens as the residence of an anthropomorphic pantheon, and later of monotheistic God and his retinue of angels, is a later development, gradually replacing the notion of the pantheon residing or convening on the summit of high mountains.
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@jlh1182 | 5 November 12 | |
jeramiah 44. 15 Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all the women who were present a large assemblyand all the people living in Lower and Upper Egypt, said to Jeremiah, 16 We will not listen to the message you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD!
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