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  2. Numbers 31 - Wikipedia

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    Idolatry with Baal-Peor (1970) by Phillip Medhurst Zimri and Kozbi portrayed as having sex in a regular tent when Phinehas kills them (1700) [note 4] Modern Tabernacle replica in the Timna Valley (2011) Scholars disagree about the exact motive Yahweh is claimed to have had in ordering Moses to wage the War against the Midianites.

  3. Belphegor - Wikipedia

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    Belphegor (or Baal Peor, Hebrew: בַּעַל-פְּעוֹר baʿal-pəʿōr – “Lord of the Gap”) is, in the Abrahamic religions, a demon associated with one of the seven deadly sins. According to religious tradition, he helps people make discoveries. He seduces people by proposing incredible inventions that will make them rich.

  4. Peor - Wikipedia

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    A reference to a deity who was worshipped at that mountain peak and, biblically, was the subject of the heresy of Peor. The deity, worshipped by the Moabites, is biblically referred to as Baal-peor (Num. 25:3,5, 18) and as the "house of peor" (בית פעור) (Deuteronomy 3:29), generally meaning the Baal of Peor.

  5. Baal - Wikipedia

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    Brian P. Irwin argues that "Baal" in northern Israelite traditions is a form of Yahweh that was rejected as foreign by the prophets. In southern Israelite traditions, "Baal" was a god that was worshipped in Jerusalem. His worshippers saw him as compatible or identical with Yahweh and honored him with human sacrifices and fragrant meal offerings.

  6. Phinehas - Wikipedia

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    Displeased with the immorality with which the Moabites and Midianites had successfully tempted the Israelites (Numbers 25:1–9) to inter-marry and to worship Baal-peor, Phinehas personally executed an Israelite man and a Midianite woman while they were together in the man's tent, running a javelin or spear through the man and the belly of the ...

  7. List of war deities - Wikipedia

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    She was the sister of Baal; Anhur, god of war, not a native god; Anuke, a goddess of war and consort of Anhur; Apedemak, the lion god of war: he is sometimes depicted with three heads; Bast, cat-headed goddess associated with war, protection of Lower Egypt and the pharaoh, the sun, perfumes, ointments, and embalming

  8. Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/B - Wikipedia

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    Baal-peor (JE) Name of a Canaanitish god. Peor was a mountain in Moab (Num. xxiii. 28), whence the special locality Beth-peor (Deut. iii... Baal-perazim (JE) A place mentioned in the report of the battle between David and the Philistines in II Sam. v. 20 (compare I Chron. xiv. 11)...

  9. Chemosh - Wikipedia

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    Chemosh (Moabite: 𐤊𐤌𐤔 ‎, romanized: Kamōš; Biblical Hebrew: כְּמוֹשׁ, romanized: Kəmōš) is a Canaanite deity worshipped by Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples who occupied the region known in the Hebrew Bible as Moab, in modern-day Jordan east of the Dead Sea, during the Levantine Bronze and Iron Ages.