Bible Dictionary: The Stars: The Israelites Forbidden to Worship

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Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has divided to all nations under the whole heaven.
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Deuteronomy 17:2-4
If there be found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, man or woman, that has worked wickedness in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant,
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All Association with Idols is to be Avoided.
... them, but not for worship; although the Israelites, by the ... or by the moon, or by
the stars; nor by ... Judaic corruption, and on that account was forbidden; and if ...
/.../constitutions of the holy apostles/sec ii all association with idols.htm

Concerning Balaam the Prophet and what Kind of Man He Was.
... of the land of Canaan, God having forbidden them to ... and that more in number than
are the stars of heaven ... But Balak being very angry that the Israelites were not ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 6 concerning balaam the.htm

Whether There was any Reasonable Cause for the Ceremonial ...
... their garments, so that the Israelites might be ... to represent the various connections
of the stars. ... sanctuary; wherefore he was absolutely forbidden to approach ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether there was any reasonable.htm

"Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge"
... The Israelites had been specially charged not to lose sight ... the sun, and the moon,
and the stars, even all ... which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee." Verses ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 24 destroyed for lack.htm

Impiety of Attributing a visible Form to God. --The Setting up of ...
... As many stars as the foolish nations saw in the ... appears from the example of the
Israelites: "Up," said ... shape to God, because God himself has forbidden it, and ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 11 impiety of attributing.htm

Translated from the Greek.
... in meaning) to those who are Israelites according to ... the morning, existed without
a sun, and moon, and stars? ... in this), that the people are forbidden to eat ...
/.../origen/origen de principiis/translated from the greek.htm

Letter xxii. To Eustochium.
... The Israelites, again, are told to celebrate the passover ... bosom of the church, their
mother: stars over which ... our first parents, to eat forbidden fruit, and ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter xxii to eustochium.htm

General Index.
... guilt of, 628. see also Israelites; Jerusalem. ... condition of churches, 309, 310.
falling of the stars, 333, 334. ... communion with, forbidden, 556. ...
/.../white/the great controversy between christ and satan /general index.htm

Election and Ordination of Bishops: Form of Service on Sundays.
... didst inscribe in heaven the choir of stars to praise ... that command, and tasted of
the forbidden fruit, by ... divide the sea, and bring the Israelites through it ...
/.../constitutions of the holy apostles/sec ii election and ordination of.htm

Babylonia and Assyria
... earth were offered by both Babylonians and Israelites, and in ... served for the observation
of the stars, and in ... the heart," and all work upon it was forbidden. ...
/.../early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter vi babylonia and assyria.htm

Subtopics

Stars

Stars of the Deliverer

Stars: Comets

Stars: Constellations of

Stars: Created by God

Stars: Crown of Twelve Stars

Stars: Darkening of

Stars: Differ in Splendor

Stars: Falling of

Stars: Orion

Stars: Planets