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To: ealgeone

The queen of heaven is mentioned in the Bible. But not within a good context:

Jeremiah 44:15-19 DRA

Then all the men that knew that their wives sacrificed to other gods: and all the women of whom there stood by a great multitude, and all the people of them that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Phatures, answered Jeremias, saying:

As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee: But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil.

But since we left off to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword, and by famine. And if we offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and pour out drink offerings to her: did we make cakes to worship her, to pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?


70 posted on 03/19/2014 10:14:42 PM PDT by redleghunter (Jesus said: "it is written...")
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To: redleghunter
The queen of heaven is mentioned in the Bible. But not within a good context

What I am wondering is this: Is this what I think might be from the Babylonian religion, of the worship of the queen of Heaven, and her son Tammuz, or was she eventually called Diana of the Ephesians? Sometimes it is hard to tell where one these mythological beliefs ends and the other begins.

119 posted on 03/20/2014 12:35:08 AM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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