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That Yahweh was knowingly worshipped as Lord Saturn by the Israelites is evidenced by the very temple Solomon built for his worship.
Solomon's Temple, together with the area surrounding it, was patterned after a celestial archetype and Solomon's Temple was dedicated to Saturn, even though later Biblical scholars have tended to shy away from this revelation.
Not only were the services in Solomon's Temple distinguishable as Saturnian rites, its holy of holies was built in the shape of a cube. a telling point here is that cubic temples were characteristic of Saturnian shrines.
It cannot therefore be said that the worship of Yahweh was tainted with Saturnian elements at a later time.
In passing it should be mentioned that there were other temples dedicated to Yahweh besides the one that Solomon built in Jerusalem and the fact that King Hezekiah of Judah "sought to centralize the worship of Yahweh in Jerusalem" demonstrates "that Yahweh worship was by no means confined to Jerusalem. "
The Bible itself mentions sanctuaries at sites such as Dan, Shechem, Shiloh, Bethel and Beersheba, and archaeology confirms that there were numerous other sanctuaries outside Jerusalem dedicated to the Israelite national god.
A cultic installation dedicated to Yahweh must have existed at Judahite Nebo in Moab during the ninth century B.C.E.
In his stela, Mesha claims to have taken from Nebo the vessels of Yahweh that he later used in a sanctuary dedicated to the Moabite god Chemosh (Shamash/Saturn).
fun fact:
Solomon's name, "belonging to Salim," can be translated as "belonging to Saturn."
David, his father, must have been very partial to the Saturnian deity for not only did he name Solomon in his honor, but also his first born son, 'Amnon, which means "belonging to
'Amin - i.e. the Stable One," and even his third, Absalom, which means "the Father is
Salim."
