Avim

We might have talked about in this past.

It means a barking dog, and the Avim giants worship them.

And he's depicted as a dog head or a jackal head.

And of course, the howling angels I mentioned in Isaiah 13 and 14, I mean 34, are these howling angels.

It goes on, the men from Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the men from Cuthah made Nergal, and the men from Hamath made Ashima.

The Avites, it goes on for a little bit to talk about all the different sacrifices they set up and the fake gods they worshiped.

And it says they worshiped the Lord in verse 32 of 2 Kings 17.

So that's nice.

The five Philistine lords of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.

Also the Avim in the south.

All the land of the Canaanites, from Mera of the Sidonians to Aphek, as far as the border of the Amorites, the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon toward the sunrise, from Balgad at the foot of Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, all the Sidonians.

But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.

The people of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the people of Cuth made Nergal, the people of Hamath made Ashima, the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak.

The Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

Sepharvaim.They also worshipped the Lord and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.

The men of Babylon made Sukkoth-Benoth, the men of Kuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, and the Avvites made Nebaz and Tartak.

and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anamelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

They also feared the Lord and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

This is the land that remains, all of the regions of the Philistines and the Geshurites.

from the Shihur River on the east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north, all of it counted as Canaanite, though held by the five Philistine rulers in Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, the territory of the Avites on the south, all the land of the Canaanites from Ara of the Sidonians, as far as Aphek of the border of the Amorites, the area of Byblos and all of Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Labo Hamath, As for all of the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon to Mishrephoth, Maim, that is, all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them out before the Israelites.

Be sure to allocate this land to Israel for an inheritance, as I've instructed you, and divide it as an inheritance among the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

The other half of Manasseh, the Reubenites and the Gadites, had received the inheritance that Moses had given them east of the Jordan, as he, the servant of the Lord, had assigned it to them.