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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 2:13

And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

Ver. 13. And served Baal and Ashtaroth,] i.e., He-gods and she-gods of all sorts, closing up their orisons with, Diique, deaque, omnes, as Servius telleth us. a From this word Ashtaroth seemeth to come the Greek word αστηρ, and the Latin astrum, a star: as Saturn, Jupiter, Luna, Pallas, &c., came from the Hebrew.

a In Georg, lib. i.

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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