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4001 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Semites, Semitic Religion.30
… ; BABYLONIA; BAAL; ASHTORETH; ASHERITES; MOLOCH; CHEMOSH; CHIUN; ISRAEL, RELIGION OF etc. The literature on the subject is vast, interesting and far from conclusive …
4002 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Shalishah, Land of.2
… range. Baal-shalishah would most likely be in the district, and may indeed have given its name to it. If Conder is right in identifying this city with Khirbet …
4003 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Shame.2
… abomination--Baal ( Jeremiah 11:13 margin; Hosea 9:10 margin; see ISH-BOSHETH ). It is bracketed with defeat ( Isaiah 30:3 ), reproach ( Psalms 69:7; Isaiah 54:4; Micah 2:6 ), confusion …
4004 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sheba (1).8
… as Baal in the Old Testament. Worship took the form of gifts to the temples, of sacrifices, especially incense, of pilgrimages and prayers. Ceremonial ablution …
4005 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Shechem.3
… of Baal-berith being here ( Judges 9:4, 46 ). In the time of the kings we find that the city was once more a gathering-place of the nation. It was evidently the center …
4006 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sheep.11
… in Baal-hazor in order that he might find an opportunity to put Amnon to death while his heart was "merry with wine" ( 2 Samuel 13:23 - 29 ). The character of the occasion …
4007 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Simeon (1).16
… of Baal-peor ( Numbers 25:14 ). The statistics in Numbers 1:22 f, where the Simeonites are given as 59,300, compared with the Numbers 2:1 1-34nd census ( Numbers 26:14 …
4008 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Syrians.16
… :11 ). Baal, or Bel, Ashtoreth, or Ishtar, were almost universally worshipped, and Nebu, Agli-bol, Melakh-bol, Ati and other deities are found in the Palmyrene inscriptions …
4009 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Tabernacle, B.51
… unto Baal and even working lewdness in Yahweh's house ( Jeremiah 11:1 - 15 ). It is urged in answer to this, that the offense complained of was not that the men of Judah …
4010 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Tarsus.16
… of Baal Tarz, the Lord of Tarsus; yet, these coins are clearly influenced by Greek types and workmanship.
4011 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Text of the Old Testament.41
1. Yahweh and Baal
4012 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Text of the Old Testament.82
… : the Baal Lebanon inscription found in Cyprus (beginning of the 9th century); the manuscript of about the year 896 of the ordinary chronology; a Hebrew agricultural …
4013 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Text of the Old Testament.116
… of Baal into bosheth ("shame"). At first there was no objection to compounding names with Baal meaning Yahweh ( Judges 6:32; 8:35 ). Then objection was taken to it ( Hosea …
4014 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Tyre.6
… Eth-baal, showing how disturbed the period was. Eth-baal, or Ithobal, was the king who made an alliance with Ahab and gave him Jezebel, his daughter, in marriage …
4015 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Tyre.7
… king, Baal, obtained the special favor of the Assyrian king, who made him ruler of all the coast cities from Dor to Gebal, and the Lebanon was placed under his …
4016 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Uzziah; (Azariah).4
… Gur-baal and Maan were reduced to subjection ( 2 Chronicles 26:6 - 7 ). Even the Ammonites, East of the Jordan, paid tribute to Uzziah, and "his name spread abroad even …
4017 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Wanderings of Israel.68
… Bamoth-Baal ( Numbers 22:41 ), "the monuments of Baal"), and Pisgah (Jebel Neba). Of these only the last is certainly known, but the central station at Nahaliel may be …
4018 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Woman.42
Baal-worship was introduced into Israel by Jezebel ( 1 Kings 16:31 - 32; 18:19; 2 Kings 9:22 ), and into Judah by her daughter Athaliah ( 2 Chronicles 22:3; 24:7 ). The prominence …
4019 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Worship.10
… ) of Baal." In Isaiah 19:21 the Revised Version (British and American) has "worship with sacrifice and oblation" (the King James Version "do sacrifice"). Isaiah 19:23 …
4020 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Zechariah (2).2
… of Baal in Israel, that his sons should sit on the throne of Israel to the 4th generation ( 2 Kings 10:30; 15:12 ). Zechariah was Jehu's great-great-grandson. The other …