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1 Kings 18:28 KJV And they cried out with loud voices, and cut themselves with knives and lancets according to their custom, until the blood was dripping on them. RVR1960: Reina Valera Bible 1960 2 Kings 23:4-20 KJV Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest... to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the field of Kidron... and also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon, and to the signs of the zodiac, and to all the host of heaven. He also had the Asherah image taken outside the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, into the Kidron Valley, and he burned it in the Kidron Valley. . . He destroyed the places of idolatrous prostitution that were in the house of Jehovah, in which the women were weaving tents for Asherah. . . where the priests burned incense and broke down the altars of the doors that were at the entrance to the gate of Joshua, governor of the city, which were on the left hand, at the gate of the city. He also desecrated Tophet... so that no one would pass his son or daughter through the fire to Molech. He also removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun at the entrance to the temple of Jehovah. . . . . Solomon king of Israel had built Ashtoreth an abominable idol of the Sidonians, Chemosh an abominable idol of Moab, and Milcom an abominable idol of the children of Ammon. And he broke the statues and tore down the Asherah images. Source: https://www.bible.com/en/bible/149/1ki.18.28 Asherah or Ashtoreth, was the name of the main female deity venerated in ancient Canaan, Phoenicia and Syria. The Phoenicians called her Astarte, the Assyrians worshiped her as Ishtar, and the Philistines had an Asherah temple (1 Samuel 31:10). Because of Israel's incomplete conquest of the land of Canaan, Asherah worship survived and plagued Israel, beginning as soon as Joshua died (Judges 2:13). Asherah was represented by the trunk of a tree without branches planted in the ground. The trunk was usually carved into a symbolic representation of the goddess. Because of the association with carved trees, the sites of Asherah worship were commonly called "of Asherah" and the Hebrew word "Asherah" may refer to the goddess as a grove of trees. One of King Manasseh's evil acts was that he "set up an Asherah image that he had made in the house of... Jehovah" (2 Kings 21:7). Considered the goddess of the moon, Asherah was often presented as a consort of Baal, the sun god (Judges 3:7, 6:28, 10:6; 1 Samuel 7:4, 12:10). Asherah was also worshiped as the goddess of love and war and was sometimes linked to Anath, another Canaanite goddess. Asherah worship was notable for its sensuality and involved ritual prostitution. The priests and priestesses of Asherah also practiced divination and fortune-telling. Source: https://www.gotquestions.org/Espanol/quien-asera.html