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Queen of Heaven

QUEEN OF HEAVEN

(melekheth ha-shamayim, although there is another reading, mele'kheth, "worship" or "goddess"): Occurs only in two passages: Jeremiah 7:18; Jeremiah 44:17-19, 25, where the prophet denounces the wrath of God upon the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem who have given themselves up to the worship of the host of heaven. This is no doubt a part of the astral worship which is found largely developed among the Jews in the later period of their history in Canaan. It is first mentioned in 2 Kings 17:16 as practiced by the men of the Northern Kingdom when Samaria had fallen and the ten tribes were being carried away into captivity. Moses is represented as warning the Israelites against the worship of the sun and moon and stars and all the host of heaven, practiced by the people of Canaan (Deuteronomy 4:19; Deuteronomy 17:3) and the existence of such worship among the Canaanites and neighboring nations is attested from an early period (compare Job 31:26-28). The worship of the heavenly bodies was widely spread in the East and in Arabia; and the Babylonian pantheon was full of astral deities, where each divinity corresponded either to an astral phenomenon or to some circumstance or occurrence in Nature which is connected with the course of the stars (Jeremias, The Old Testament in the Light of the Ancient East, I, 100). From the prophets we gather that before the exile the worship of the host of heaven had become established among all classes and in all the towns of Israel (Jeremiah ubi supra; Ezekiel 8:16). In that worship the queen of heaven had a conspicuous place; and if, as seems probable from the cakes which were offered, she is to be identified with the Assyrian Ishtar and the Canaanite Astarte, the worship itself was of a grossly immoral and debasing character. That this Ishtar cult was of great antiquity and widely spread in ancient Babylonia may be seen from the symbols of it found in recent excavations (see Nippur, II, 236). How far the astral theorists like Winckler and Jeremias are entitled to link up with this worship the mourning for Josiah, the lamentations over Tammuz, the story of Jephthah's daughter, and even-the narrative of the misfortunes and the exaltation of Joseph, is questionable. But that the people of Judah in the days before the exile had given themselves over to the worst and vilest forms of heathen worship and incurred the grievous displeasure of Yahweh is made clear by the denunciation of the worship of the queen of heaven by Jeremiah.

T. Nicol.

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Queen of Heaven

(Jeremiah 7:18; 45:17,18,19,25) is the moon Ashtaroth or Astarte to whom worshiped as Hebrew women offered cakes in the streets of Jerusalem.

ATS Bible Dictionary
Queen of Heaven

A name given by the Hebrew idolaters to the moon, Jeremiah 7:18 44:17-18. See ASHITORETH.

Library

Hail, Queen of Heaven
... No. 84 Hail, Queen of heaven. THE BLESSED VIRGIN Hail, Queen of heaven Ave, Regina
coelorum. Rev. Dr. Lingard Traditional Melody. Moderato. ...
/.../various/the st gregory hymnal and catholic choir book/no 84 hail queen of.htm

Hail, all Hail, Great Queen of Heaven!
... No.78 Hail, all hail, great Queen of Heaven! THE BLESSED VIRGIN Hail, all hail,
great Queen of Heaven! Our Lady of Lourdes Processional. ...
/.../the st gregory hymnal and catholic choir book/no 78 hail all hail great.htm

On the Worthy Praise of the Pure Queen of Heaven.
... PART THE FIRST. CHAPTER XVI. On The Worthy Praise of The Pure Queen of Heaven. The
Servant."Oh, the great riches of the Divine knowledge and wisdom! ...
/.../suso/a little book of eternal wisdom/chapter xvi on the worthy.htm

On the Unutterable Heart-Rending Grief of the Pure Queen of Heaven ...
... PART THE FIRST. CHAPTER XVII. On The Unutterable Heart-Rending Grief of
The Pure Queen of Heaven. The Servant."Who will give my ...
/.../suso/a little book of eternal wisdom/chapter xvii on the unutterable.htm

The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book
... H. Hail, All Hail, Great Queen of Heaven 78 Hail, Full of Grace and Purity 86 Hail,
Glorious Saint Patrick (No.1) 96 Hail, Glorious Saint Patrick (No.2) 97 Hail ...
/.../various/the st gregory hymnal and catholic choir book/index 2.htm

The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book
... No. 77 Mother of Mercy. No.78 Hail, all hail, great Queen of Heaven! No. 79 O purest
of creatures. ... Holy Queen, enthroned above. No. 84 Hail, Queen of heaven. No. ...
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A Little Book of Eternal Wisdom
... CHAPTER XVI. On The Worthy Praise of The Pure Queen of Heaven. CHAPTER XVII. On
The Unutterable Heart-Rending Grief of The Pure Queen of Heaven. ...
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And After. (xxx, xxxi, xxxix-Xliv. )
... But we shall surely perform every word, which has gone forth from our mouth:(672)
to burn to the Queen of Heaven and pour her libations, as we and our fathers ...
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How a Light from Heaven Stood all Night Over his Relics, and How ...
... the queen, the discourse, among other things, turning upon Oswald, she said, that
she also had that night seen the light over his relics reaching up to heaven. ...
/.../bede/bedes ecclesiastical history of england/chap xi how a light.htm

The Glory of Jesus and Mary.
... Thus we see that even Jesus and Mary, the bright King and Queen of heaven, are exalted
above all angels and men in glory, on account of the heroic virtue they ...
/.../boudreaux/the happiness of heaven/chapter xvi the glory of.htm

Resources
How is theology “the queen of the sciences”? | GotQuestions.org

Who was Vashti in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

Who was Esther in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

Queen: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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