Ashteroth-karnaim

Ashteroth-Karnaim ("Ashtaroth of the two horns") was one of the cities of the Rephaim east of the Jordan that the four eastern kings under Chedorlaomer destroyed in their great campaign at the beginning of Genesis 14: "smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim" (Gen 14:5). The compound name combines Ashtaroth (the Canaanite fertility goddess) with Karnaim ("horns" — emblems of strength and fertility), marking it as a major cultic center for the worship of Ashtaroth in horned-bull form. The site is generally identified with Tell Ashtara or nearby Sheikh Sa'd in the Bashan highlands east of the Sea of Galilee.