The typical 30-year fixed jumbo mortgage rate fell 4 basis points to 4.15 percent. The average 5/1 adjustable mortgage rate increased 1 basis point to 3.46 percent. A basis point is one-hundredth of 1 percent. For the purposes of Bankrate's survey, a jumbo mortgage is a loan that is at least $650,000. With a 5/1 ARM, the rate is fixed for five years and adjusted annually thereafter.
God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. 1  In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to mention that the ancient Israelites worshiped both Yahweh and Asherah.
Dictionaries-Easton's Bible Dictionary-Ashtoreth. the moon goddess of the Phoenicians, representing the passive principle in nature, their principal female deity; frequently associated with the name of Baal, the sun-god, their chief male deity (Judges 10:6; 1 Samuel 7:4; 12:10).he was the Ishtar of the Accadians and the Astarte of the Greeks (Jeremiah 44:17; 1 Kings 11:5 1 Kings 11:33; 2 Kings 23:13). There was a temple of this goddess among the Philistines in the time of Saul (1 Samuel 31:10).