Ashima (Hebrew: אֲשִׁימָא, Modern Tiberian This template name redirects to {{[[Template:|]]...}} which may be edited using [[ edit]]. See also 1. * * 2. * Wikipedia:Redirects 3. * Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages Latin: Asima) is one of several deities protecting the individual cities of Samaria who are mentioned specifically by name in 2 Kings 17:30 in the Hebrew Bible. From the scribes' point of view the cities should not have been making cult images ("idols"), because they had agreed to worship the God of the Israelites that had once lived in the land, as described in some detail in the 2 Kings 17: ...And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria