Ashtaroth

Identified as

Tell Ashtara

Certainty

Likely (80% of scholarship)

Coordinates

32.804° N, 36.016° E

Ashtaroth, Ashterathite· Be-Eshterah· Astaroth

• בְּעֶשְׁתְּרָה·Beeshterah
• עַשְׁתָּרוֹת·Ashtaroth
• עַשְׁתְּרָתִי·Ashtaroth

1. Deuteronomy 1:4עַשְׁתָּרוֹת · Ashtaroth
   This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.
2. Joshua 9:10עַשְׁתָּרוֹת · Ashtaroth
   …and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan—Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth.
3. Joshua 12:4עַשְׁתָּרוֹת · Ashtaroth
   And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
4. Joshua 13:12עַשְׁתָּרוֹת · Ashtaroth
   …the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and had remained as a remnant of the Rephaim. Moses had struck them down and dispossessed them,
5. Joshua 13:31עַשְׁתָּרוֹת · Ashtaroth
   …half of Gilead; and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the royal cities of Og in Bashan. All this was for the clans of the descendants of Machir son of Manasseh, that is, half of the descendants of Machir.
6. Joshua 21:27בְּעֶשְׁתְּרָה · Beeshterah
   This is what the Levite clans of the Gershonites were given: From the half-tribe of Manasseh they were given Golan in Bashan, a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beeshterah—two cities, together with their pasturelands.
7. 1 Chronicles 6:71עַשְׁתָּרוֹת · Ashtaroth
   The Gershomites received the following: From the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh they were given Golan in Bashan and also Ashtaroth, together with their pasturelands.
8. 1 Chronicles 11:44עַשְׁתְּרָתִי · Ashtaroth
   Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,