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Fausets

BAAL as applied to places. It sometimes refers to Baal's worship there; sometimes it means that the place possesses some attribute denoted by the other part of the compound. It is a Canaanite not Hebrew term: applied to the men of Jericho while Canaanites (Jos 24:11), "the men (baliy, possessors, occupants) of Jericho." Also "the men (baliy, occupants) of Shechem," the ancient city of the Hivite Hamor (Jg 9:2-51); the occupants of Keilah, bordering on pagandom (1Sa 23:11-12); Uriah the Hittite; "lords of the pagan" (Isa 16:8).

So strong was Israelite orthodox feeling against the name, that they altered names in which it occurred: Jerubbaal into Jerubbesheth, Merib-baal into Mephibosheth: compare Ho 2:16. "At that day, saith Jehovah, thou shalt call Me Ishi, and shalt call Me no more Baali." Though both express "my husband," yet Baali by being used for the images of Baal whose name ought not to be taken up into the lips (Ps 16:4), was to be renounced for the unambiguous Ishi.

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Smith

Ba'al,

the supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations, as Ashtoreth was their supreme female divinity. Some suppose Baal to correspond to the sun and Ashtoreth to the moon; others that Baal was Jupiter and Ashtoreth Venus. There can be no doubt of the very high antiquity of the worship of Baal. It prevailed in the time of Moses among the Moabites and Midianites,

Nu 22:41

and through them spread to the Israelites.

Nu 25:3-18; De 4:3

In the times of the kings it became the religion of the court and people of the ten tribes,

1Ki 16:31-33; 18:19,22

and appears never to have been permanently abolished among them.

2Ki 17:16

Temples were erected to Baal in Judah,

1Ki 16:32

and he was worshipped with much ceremony.

1Ki 18:19,26-28; 2Ki 10:22

The attractiveness of this worship to the Jews undoubtedly grew out of its licentious character. We find this worship also in Phoenician colonies. The religion of the ancient British islands much resembled this ancient worship of Baal, and may have been derived from it. Nor need we hesitate to regard the Babylonian Bel,

Isa 46:1

or Beaus, as essentially identical with Baal, though perhaps under some modified form. The plural, BAALIM, is found frequently, showing that he was probably worshipped under different compounds, among which appear--

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1. BAAL-BERITH (the covenant Baal),

Jg 8:33; 9:4

the god who comes into covenant with the worshippers.

2. BAAL-ZEBUB (lord of the fly), and worshipped at Ekron.

2Ki 1:2-3,16

3. BAAL-HANAN. a. The name of one of the early kings of Edom.

Ge 36:38-39; 1Ch 1:49-50

b. The name of one of David's officers, who had the superintendence of his olive and sycamore plantations.

1Ch 27:28

4. BAAL-PEOR (lord of the opening, i.e. for others to join in the worship). We have already referred to the worship of this god. The narrative (Numb 25) seems clearly to show that this form of Baal-worship was connected with licentious rites.

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