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It is probable that necromancy, like the worship of Ashērah and ’Ashtoreth, as well as the cult of graven images, was a Canaanite importation into Israel’s religious practices.

They were not such idols as represented Baal or Ashtoreth or Moloch, but images designed to aid in the worship of the God of Israel.

Brown thinks that it probably represents the ancient goddess Istar, and also Ashtoreth.

Charmides had, of late, been picturing too divine a beauty to feel any tremor of eagerness before this gentle priestess of Ashtoreth.

This supplies the void, for Asharah may be regarded as another name for the goddess Ashtoreth, as is plainly seen by the following passages: "They forsook Jehovah and served Baal and Ashtoreth;" Judges ii.