The typical 30-year fixed jumbo mortgage rate fell 4 basis points to 4.15 percent. The average 5/1 adjustable mortgage rate increased 1 basis point to 3.46 percent. A basis point is one-hundredth of 1 percent. For the purposes of Bankrate's survey, a jumbo mortgage is a loan that is at least $650,000. With a 5/1 ARM, the rate is fixed for five years and adjusted annually thereafter.
God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. 1  In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to mention that the ancient Israelites worshiped both Yahweh and Asherah.
She is most known for the Bible story in which she was summoned by King David who had seen her bathing and lusted after her. Bathsheba was a daughter of Eliam, one of David's thirty (2 Sam. 23:34; cf 1 Chr. 3:5); Eliam was the son of Ahitophel, one of David's chief advisors.