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The biblical admonitions against idolatry included the wor- ship of the Kokhabim, the visible "stars" that were repre- sented by their symbols on monuments and as emblems erected upon stands in shrines and temples. They included the twelve members of the Solar System and the twelve constellations of the zodiac. Among the general admonitions there were some _ that specifically prohibited the worship of the "Queen of Heaven"—Ishtar as the planet Venus, the Sun and the Moon, and the zodiacal constellations that were called Mazaloth ("Fortune omens"), a term stemming from the Akkadian word for these celestial bodies. A passage in Il Kings chapter 23, dealing with the destruc- tion of these idollic emblems, specifically names a_ planet called "The Lord" (The Ba’al) in addition to the Sun and the Moon and the rest of the "host of heaven." The Book of Ecclesiastes (12:2) also names a celestial body called "The Light" as appearing between the Sun and the Moon. We believe that these are references to Nibiru, the twelfth mem- ber of our Solar System. These twelve celestial bodies were represented together by the various symbols by which they were worshiped in Mesopotamia, on a stela of King Esarhaddon that is now in the British Museum. On this stela (see Fig. 73) the Sun is represented by a rayed star, the Moon by its crescent, Nibiru by its Winged Disc symbol, and the Earth—the seventh planet as one would count from the outside inward—by the symbol of the Seven Dots. 1 that of term IDOLATRY AND STAR WORSHIP