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  2. Baal - Wikipedia

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    Baalim and Ashtaroth are given as the collective names of the male and female demons (respectively) who came from between the "bordering flood of old Euphrates" and "the Brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground". [98] Baal and derived epithets like Baalist were used as slurs during the English Reformation for the saints and their devotees.

  3. Category:Baal - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to Baal, a title and honorific meaning "owner," "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods. The title is particularly associated with the storm and fertility god Hadad.

  4. Baal Berith - Wikipedia

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    According to Yehezkel Kaufmann, "Baal-berith and El-berith of Judges 9:4,46 is presumably YHWH", as "ba'al was an epithet of YHWH in earlier times". [ 4 ] Elsewhere, some of the Shechemites are called "men of Hamor"; [ 5 ] this is compared to "sons of Hamor", which in the ancient Middle East referred to people who had entered into a covenant ...

  5. Baal Cycle - Wikipedia

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    The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic text (c. 1500–1300 BCE) ... Ginsberg's 1969 translation in the volume Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament.

  6. Canaanite religion - Wikipedia

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    Ba'al Hammon, god of vegetative fertility and renewer of all energies of Ancient Carthage. Ba'al Hermon, titular local deity of Mount Hermon. Ba'al Shamin also called Baal Shamem and Baal Shamaim, supreme sky god of Palmyra, Syria whose temple was destroyed on 23 August 2015 by ISIL. His attributes were the eagle and the lightning bolt.

  7. Jezebel - Wikipedia

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    Jezebel's prophets failed to summon Baal in burning the bull sacrifice, despite their cries and cutting themselves. Elijah, however, succeeded when he summoned Yahweh, impressing the Israelites. He then ordered the people to seize and kill the prophets of Baal and Asherah at the Kishon River. In response, Jezebel vows to kill Elijah.

  8. Baal-Eser II - Wikipedia

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    Baal-Eser II (846–841 BC), also known as Balbazer II and Ba'l-mazzer I was a king of Tyre, the son of Ithobaal I, brother of Jezebel and brother-in-law of Ahab. The primary information related to Baal-Eser II comes from Josephus's citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus in Against Apion i.18.

  9. Baal-gad - Wikipedia

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    Baal-Gad was a Canaanite town at the foot of Mount Hermon. It is mentioned in the Bible three times, all of them in the Book of Joshua (Josh. 11:17; 12:7; 13:5). In all cases, it is described as the northernmost point of Joshua 's conquests.