19 Bible Verses about Ishtar

Jeremiah 7:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes 

The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough,
to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to
other gods, to provoke me to anger.

Ezekiel 8:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD,
and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

Jeremiah 44:25 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You and your wives have declared
with your mouths, and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, ‘We will surely
perform our vows that we have made, to make offerings to the queen of heaven
and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Then confirm your vows and perform your
vows!

Deuteronomy 12:30-32 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been
destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How
did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’ You shall not
worship the LORD your God in that way, for every abominable thing that
the LORD hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and
their daughters in the fire to their gods. “Everything that I command you, you
shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.

Jeremiah 44:17-19 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of
heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers,
our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem.
For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster. But since we
left off making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings
to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by
famine.” And the women said, “When we made offerings to the queen of heaven
and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands' approval that
we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
Jeremiah 7:18-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough,
to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to
other gods, to provoke me to anger. Is it I whom they provoke? declares
the LORD. Is it not themselves, to their own shame? Therefore thus says the
Lord GOD: behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon
man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn
and not be quenched.”

Ezra 1:2-4 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all
the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at
Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may his
God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild
the house of the LORD, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem. And
let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his
place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings
for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”

Revelation 17:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me,
“Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on
many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual
immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth
have become drunk.” And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I
saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and
it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet,
and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup
full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her
forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of
prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” ...

1 Kings 18:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

And they took the bull that was given them, and they prepared it and called upon
the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “O Baal, answer us!” But there
was no voice, and no one answered. And they limped around the altar that they
had made.

Revelation 18:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority,
and the earth was made bright with his glory. And he called out with a mighty
voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for
demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt
for every unclean and detestable beast. For all nations have drunk the wine of the
passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed
immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the
power of her luxurious living.” Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,
“Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her
plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her
iniquities. ...

Ezekiel 8:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at
the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were
about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their
faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.

Ezekiel 8:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my
house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord GOD fell
upon me there. Then I looked, and behold, a form that had the appearance of a
man. Below what appeared to be his waist was fire, and above his waist was
something like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming metal. He put out the
form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the Spirit lifted me up
between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the
entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat
of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. And behold, the glory of the
God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the valley. Then he said to me,
“Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes
toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this
image of jealousy. ...

Isaiah 14:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut
down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!

Job 31:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?
Job 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.

Ezekiel 28:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote 

You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering,
sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and
carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the
day that you were created they were prepared.

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 1 helpful vote 

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of
the LORD been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a
root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide
their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our
griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God,
and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our
iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his
stripes we are healed. ...

Isaiah 45:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote 

Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to
subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before
him that gates may not be closed:

Job 41:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a
cord?