The great and powerful wikipedia refers to the star of david as a title of the God of Israel.?

The "great and powerful" wikipedia is woefully wrong on many of its articles about Judaism- and attempts to correct them tend to be blocked by moderators with an agenda. its sad, but wikipedia CANNOT be relied on when it comes to anything to do with Judaism!

Either Wikipedia, the earlier answer, or you merged a batch of stuff that is not directly related.

"Magen David" means "shield of David"

The original reference is to

Psalm 144

1. A song of David. Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who traineth my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;

2. My lovingkindness, and my fortress, my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and He in whom I take refuge; who subdueth my people under me.

Notice the metaphors for God's power and protection which have survived through today

"God is my rock"

"shield of David"

"tower of David"

At some point in history, the physical image of the two interlaced triangles was used to teach concepts about God and society (direct connection between man and God, an interlaced mirrored reflection of God and man, the three pointed relationship between God-society-individual...) -- and then became identified with the metaphor "shield of David"

and was finaly taken as one of the heraldic images used to symbolize that the bearer of the image was of the family of king David.

Perhaps David liked the metaphoric image and combined it with his poetic metaphor and put it on his actual shield or banner.

Then, in the 19th century, the symbol was generalized to being the heraldry to identify the Jewish people as a whole.

(much like "the Lion of Judah" came to refer to all of Israel)

So -- the word "symbolize" is used very differently when we say

"the words 'shield of David' symbolize God"

from when we say

"the interlaced triangles symbolize the relationship between God and humanity"

from when we say

"the picture 'shield of David' symbolizes the Jewish people"

Judaism underwent some interesting changes in Babylon, including its transition to a Monotheism. I think with all the Psalm references to David as a king crowned by Yahweh in the heavens and being his son its very likely David was even originally viewed as a kind of god-king or demigod

The God of Israel. יהוה צבאות (YHWH-Tzeva'ot, "Yahweh God of the hosts").

As in, the national (read: tribal) god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah, as opposed to the other national gods in the Fertile Crescent.

As it's a national god, it's correctly identified with the star of David.

To him were the prayers from the Jews who waited for a Messiah to free them from the Romans. The same Jews who saw Jesus among them and themselves fed him to the Romans.

That's not my God, BTW. I don't believe in the concept of a "chosen people" the ancient Hebrews clinged to. I believe in a God to which everyone is equal regardless of nationality. A God whose Son preached to Jews, Samaritans and Gentiles.

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"god" is imaginary - an absolute fallacy. There is no god either for Israel or to anything or anybody else. god is just a hopeless creation of scared and ignorant humans.

It's metaphysical BS.