Henotheistic Abberatons in Ancient Israel

In our present discussion we shall use the term “henotheism in its generally accepted sense as referring to a belief in the supremacy of one god in a particular locality, while the existence of other gods in other places is taken for granted. It is, or course, not true that Jehovism as a religious system recognized such tenets. Scripture affords ample evidence to the effect that the great, inspired religious teachers of the Hebrews, such as Moses, Samuel, David, the prophets, and others, had a clear knowledge of the sole position of Jehovah as God of the universe. That this knowledge was, however, not always shared by the masses of Israelites is equally well attested in the Bible. It was this deficiency in the religious convictions or the Jews as a whole which was responsible for the constant and wholesale idolatry which we find recorded in the pages of the Old Testament