Note: The answer articulates the word Ashtoreth as opposed to asteroth.

Dagon1; Chief God over the Philistines; originally worshiped by the Canaanite's before the Philistine invasion of Canaan

Ashtoreth, Phoenician and Syrian goddess of love and fertility the Queen of Heaven

DAGON

Joshua 15:41

Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages;

Joshua 19:27

It turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon; and it reached to Zebulun and to the Valley of Jiphthah El, then northward beyond Beth Emek and Neiel, bypassing Cabul which was on the left,

Judges 16:23

Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice. And they said: "Our god has delivered into our hands Samson our enemy!"

1 Samuel 5:2

When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the temple of Dagon and set it by Dagon.

1 Samuel 5:3

And when the people of Ashdod arose early in the morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set it in its place again.

1 Samuel 5:4

And when they arose early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. The head of Dagon and both the palms of its hands were broken off on the threshold; only Dagon's torso was left of it.

1 Samuel 5:5

Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon's house tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

1 Samuel 5:7

And when the men of Ashdod saw how it was, they said, "The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for His hand is harsh toward us and Dagon our god."

1 Chronicles 10:10

Then they put his armor in the temple of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.

ASHTORETH

1 Kings 11:5 -

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

1 Kings 11:33

because they have forsaken Me, and worshiped Ashtoreththe goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David.

2 Kings 23:13]

Then the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, which were on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the people of Ammon.

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